Solo founder. Shipped three products, killed two, and I'm currently all-in on the one that's actually working. I share the real numbers — good and bad.

I quit a comfortable product management job to build software full-time, and spent the first eighteen months building things nobody wanted. Ledgerly — a bookkeeping tool for freelancers who hate bookkeeping — is the one that finally clicked, mostly because I built it for a problem I actually had myself.
I write publicly about revenue, churn, and the decisions that didn't work, because that's the content I wished existed when I started. No vanity metrics, no "10x your revenue" threads — just what actually happened.
Most days: half building, half in customer conversations, occasionally regretting how much I underpriced the product in year one.
Grew from $0 to $18K MRR in 14 months, entirely through content and word of mouth — zero paid acquisition.
Built a scheduling tool and a Notion-adjacent app. Both got users, neither got revenue — the lessons fund everything since.
Shipped B2B features end-to-end, which is where the "actually talk to customers" habit came from.
Bookkeeping and invoicing built specifically for freelancers, not adapted from enterprise accounting software.
A scheduling tool for consultants. Got 300 signups, converted almost none — pricing and positioning were both wrong.