$5,800/Month in 7 Months

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The two co-founders reached 300 subscribers and $5800 MRR in only 7 months, then sold to a $500 million fintech company. The sale price wasn’t disclosed, but “part of the deal was getting equity in the acquiring company.” 🤑

One of the co-founders posted about the messy origins of the business, detailing how they came up with the idea, quickly validated it via Subreddits and Facebook Groups, then engineered a successful launch on Product Hunt.

Love this part…

I think most people focus way too much on having a slick fancy website before they even know if people will pay for their product. Validation > perfection (at least when you’re just starting out).

Our initial landing page that we used to test the idea was super ghetto. We didn’t have any testimonials or examples of the product but we still managed to make $1,000 in presales.