Seems like a good plan. :)
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The "now what?" I kept asking myself, is a strange question to ask yourself, when you've been so dedicated for so long.
Pretty sure a lot of people here have the same feeling. It's one I had before, and I still have after my success. There is always something else, something better you wish you had.
In my hometown, there is an entrepreneur; one everyone knows who started a 3D studio with now more than > 300 employees; a massive success. He lives in my neighborhood, so we happen to discuss from time to time on walks. He, at one point, stopped me when I told him how much I admired his work and how envious I was of his abilities to scale smoothly; he told me: "Phil, there is nothing I would love more than running a small profitable web business like yours with just two of my buddies."
When success hits for the first time, it's a disturbing feeling realizing your desires and insecurities are pretty much still all there. You are still an envious bag of meat.
Anyway, congrats Peter on the success and fantastic journey! Yes, I'm still a bit jealous, like most here :) But I work on this. I got to go; I got my Yin Yoga class in 20 minutes. It will surely help me realize how lucky I am to live a life of beauty and experiments. It will help me recognize this burning jealousy, accept it, as it is simply part of this beautiful game of life.
[1] https://missiveapp.com/blog/how-we-built-1m-arr-email-client
"However we struggled to convince ourselves that enough people would find this useful enough to switch from Gmail and to pay for an email client."
In the end, getting venture capital always seemed so time-consuming that we never contemplated the idea of doing it seriously apart from YC.
We worked a lot in the last year to simplify some of the app's concepts and help onboard colleagues.
> The fact that i had to write them to delete my account instead of just being able to do that in settings made me really angry back
It's now possible in app. :)
https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/033-philippe-lehoux-of-...
Yes, it is.
The single codebase for the client. We do have a server/API, which manages push notifications.
Goals are useless to us. We tried a few times to set them and just shifted them around until we stopped caring about them. Working under the constraint of goals killed our creativity.
Our long-term planning strategy is simple: is the decision we're taking today making us more resilient? Yes, or no. We apply this strategy to business, finance, marketing, technology stack choice, etc.
We will grow, we can't be four people forever, but we will be as long as we feel we offer our customers a great experience.
We had no web fame, Missive wasn't popular and it was a JavaScript app, let's say we were really surprised too.
At the end of the day, most of the users we got from those features, weren't really good fit. But it was good for our confidence.
Profits from another business, in and itself, are technically also from personal savings.
But yeah, maybe our story doesn't subscribe to the purest form of bootstrapping.
We wrote this post explaining some of the differences: https://missiveapp.com/frontapp-vs-missive
Early on we were featured by Apple couple of times + podcasts, but now, mainly a mix of word of mouth content/SEO and honestly a lot of mystery.
Today HN :)
We just reached $1M in ARR.
Yes, it is all possible; their problem is they tried to compete directly on the same terms, you can't outspend a VC-backed business.
After, the roadmap is open, but we will probably start working on analytics before new integrations.
Thanks for the mention Francesco. I'm Philippe, one of the co-founders of Missive [1], don't hesitate if you have any questions.
p.s. We are a tiny team (4) too and use many SaaS ourselves.
This could potentially be used to stir the political discourse of a country towards one outcome or create unrest by putting groups of citizen against each others, etc. All done by controlling what users see.
If you have the former position, which seems to be embraced by the majority of HN users, you can't accept to have Tik Tok, a chinese controlled social network, taking over everyone under 30 in the US.
How would this not be a major threat? As opposed to bot farms on FB/Twitter controlled by foreign actors?
I don't understand the relation from ^ with the rest of his take.
He is saying the US should ban Tik Tok instead of forcing a sale of the US operation to a US company?