[frits1993]

Sure.

Last year June, I built a small online tool for me and my girlfriend to manage our IPTV playlist. I bought a domain name and put it online because our IPTV player needed to access it through a URL. A couple of months later, and 7 users found the tool and were actually using it (keep in mind that that's pretty impressive for a tool as not-user-focused as it was back then).

So I then decided to spend more time refining it. Building more features, introducing paid plans, and making sure everything worked as user-friendly as possible.

It basically all started growing organically from there. This month so far I have a Stripe balance of €620 (roughly 687USD) after fees, which is my 5th full month of running with pricing plans.

As you can imagine, I'm super excited to see if it can keep growing like this!

[whalesalad]

So it’s software people pay for to make managing their pirated tv content easier to browse?

[michaelmior]

IPTV is not necessarily pirated content. Many countries have commercial offerings although I don't know of any company doing so in North America.

[Gys]

What tech do you use? Really like your website btw, friendly, clean and clear

[frits1993]

Thanks. It all runs on a Laravel codebase, and the SaaS part is handled by Laravel Spark. UI of the landing page is a template I bought, the dashboard is own tinkering.

[husarcik]

It is awesome that you used Laravel! Have you needed to do any tweaks for performance?

[tckb]

cool. it gives me a lot of confidence to hear these stories :-) Where did you initially "advertised" (I don't mean paid) ?

[frits1993]

That's the cool thing, it got its first users without any promotion what so ever. I had used it myself for a couple of months, and only after 2 months I logged into the database and saw these 7 users who simply found it (maybe by URL). They not only registered but were actually using it in the same was as I did.

After that, did post it on some forums, and on the IPTV subreddit, which did give it a boost.

But I have not been posting it anywhere for the last few months now, it seems that the steady flow of new users just keeps pretty constant no and the most active users are the ones who just find it through Google.

[tckb]

may be this is something you can find out and try to put in some more time there. This will improve your userbase. also +1 for organic growth

[codesternews]

How you got your customers?

[arcadeparade]

mind sharing your website?