So if each member of the team worked for that entire 26 hours they worked 208 hours total. Because their version of 'profit' does not seem to factor in wage for the 8 people involved. Their 1095 'profit' came out to a wage of just under $5.27 an hour for each of the 8. The amount made in the time period should not be viewed as a victory in this situation. There may have been an educational or other victory for team m…
That was also my first thought. Kudos to the OP in that you managed to build a product people wanted and paid something for. For creating something you could sell. And then went ahead and sold it. And made a profit. That's better than most wantpreneurs. But you didn't do better than minimum wage. You could have just done a bunch of TaskRabbit or Odesk or Elance gigs and for the same 26 hours ended up much farther ahe…
That's how most monthly services work. It takes a lot of work up front to make a product successful. You will almost always in fact be working for almost nothing when you start a company like this. That's why people raise money. But that initial work returns exponential value in the long term.
So yes, if you want to attack something you can attack the $1K in profit, go for it. But you're missing the point. The point is that making money takes work, and if you put in the work, you can make money doing anything. Like selling Jerky. Imagine if you actually have a good idea.