To anyone who has built a business that has 1 paying customer, how did it feel when you achieved it?
To anyone who has built a business that has 1000+ paying customers, how did it feel when you achieved it in comparison?
How did you feel when you got your first paying user? What about your first 1000 paying users?
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First paying customer: whoah, someone is actually paying for my buggy initial solution. Crazy!
1000+ users: whoah, people are still paying for my slightly less buggy solution. Cool.
At this point, I’m thinking more about scaling, maintenance, new features, hiring devs and becoming a digital nomad.
i am happy i got 5 free users i am probably going to die from happiness if someone converts to paid ha ha 🙂
I don’t really have clients, I sell products, but the first one feels just as good as the first 100, as the first 1,000, as the first 100 a day. The goals get bigger, but they do not produce more dopamine than the first, smaller goals you had
yeah, first paying user felt unreal. like instant validation and a shot of energy. tbh the gap to 1000 is way less euphoric and way more systems, onboarding, churn, support, cash flow. at 1000 I felt calmer but heavier, you start thinking retention, pricing tests, and hiring instead of just “it works.”
practical tip that helped me get from 1 to hundreds: tighten onboarding emails, add in-app checklists, and personally DM early users to learn why they’d churn. also, if Reddit’s part of your funnel, I’ve used DitDo to catch high-intent posts fast so I could reply first without doomscrolling all day. not magic, but it shaved hours and brought in a steady trickle of qualified convos.
celebrate the first, build boring repeatable processes for the rest. that’s the game.