14 months to $5,000 MRR

Rauno Metsa writes:

I picked a random set of 20 startups built by solo founders in the range of $5,000-$40,000 MRR and looked at how quickly they reached the initial $5,000/month revenue…

We see that it took a median of 14 months to reach $5,000 MRR.

Rauno points out that many of those founders had tried and failed with previous startups before, so take the 14 months timeline with a large grain of salt 🧂

Looking through the list of startups, here are three I found particularly interesting, mainly due to their simplicity…

• SolidGigs – $7600 MRR – freelance jobs newsletter
• signature.email – $9500 MRR – email signature generator for teams
• PDFShift – $7900 MRR – HTML to PDF conversion API