Ask HN: Surprised by your revenue? Easier than you thought?
I'm slowly hacking away at a niche B2B SaaS product after work and on weekends. I'm looking forward to the prospect of some extra monthly cash. I get a kick out of thinking, "At $30/mo, I only need 200 users to bring in a cool $6000 a month!" (gross, of course) ...but wait. Will I get even 200 subscribers? Maybe I'll struggle to reach 10. What if I'm underestimating my market here - what if I get 2,000? I bounce ideas around in my head: "Of course I'll get 200 subscribers. 1.3 million people live in New Hampshire alone, and we're just one small state in the USA!" Even though my product is for a niche market, my local Yellow Pages confirms there are a dozen likely candidates for my application. I sometimes think I could secure 200 subscribers from just New York City alone, never mind the rest of the country, world. I'm genuinely interested in the product I'm working on and the experience
Why it failed
I'm slowly hacking away at a niche B2B SaaS product after work and on weekends. I'm looking forward to the prospect of some extra monthly cash. I get a kick out of thinking, "At $30/mo, I only need 200 users to bring in a cool $6000 a month!" (gross, of course) ...but wait. Will
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- route3
- Ended
- 2010
- Source
- hackernews