Solo developer startups to $5k MRR

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13 pointsraunometsa5 comments

I like the point about overnight success.

Folks like to think they'll make a course or write a book and rake in $1M USD overnight, and miss the years of value that successful folks provide their audience.

When I first saw all these devs making "$500k in 3 days" (Josh W Comeau), I wondered wtf. But when I started to look into their stories, they were doing stuff for years: sharing things for free, starting and failing with side projects, etc.

It's cool, though what does that median look like when you add +Inf observations for the startups that don't make it?

I know the median number is quite random tbh. It's just a random set of startups where I look what the median is, right.

But at least it was interesting for me to learn about how long it took for these particular solo dev startups to reach $5k MRR.

Being a different set of data, it would look different, and also not particularly interesting in the way that including still births and childhood accidents/disease into a crude average is not a particularly useful way to answer the question "What is an average lifespan?"

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