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by aeharding 3471 days ago
9 months: January to September. It took 2 weeks after launch to get the first paying customer.

The product is a SaaS progressive web app for budgeting. It's $12/year for the premium version.

The main challenges were adding the last few features, making it production ready, and polish. The 80-20 rule really applied here (it took 20% of time to get 80% of the way), and that's only for the MVP! I still work on the app almost every day. :)

I'd say the hardest part now that I have many customers is not breaking anything for those existing customers.

https://financier.io

https://app.financier.io/humans.txt

3 comments

I know it's nit picky, but in the 'About' section on Financier's website the first sentence under '100% offline web app' reads "Click the button above to go the the app"... I just wanted to let you know it bugged me a little but other than that it looks very nice!
Wow awesome job you have done there! Mind sharing how you manage to get your first client?
I believe I got my first client by posting on Reddit, and from there it organically spread by people sharing it.

It is a side project though, and I'm not under pressure to acquire customers.

It looks great! Could you share more details, like how many paying customers you have etc?