> Day 30: The final retrospective - from zero to MRR
Day 30 of 30. We made it.
30 posts and counting
Day 30 of 30. We made it.
Day 29 of 30. We did it. Three paying customers!
Day 28 of 30. End of week 4. Two days left.
Day 27 of 30. Today we closed our second paying customer.
Day 26 of 30. Four days left. Time to talk to more potential customers.
Day 25 of 30. Today we make things faster.
Day 24 of 30. It finally happened. Someone paid us money.
Day 23 of 30. Today we respond to real user feedback.
Day 22 of 30. Today we set up monitoring so we know when things break.
Day 21 of 30. End of week 3. Time to see if we can scale.
Day 20 of 30. Today we talk to a real potential customer.
Day 19 of 30. Today we stop building and start selling.
Day 18 of 30. Today we make the product robust.
Day 17 of 30. Today we write the docs developers will actually read.
Day 16 of 30. Today we make money possible.
Day 15 of 30. Halfway there. Today we tackle the money question.
Day 14 of 30. Week 2 ends. Tomorrow is our first customer deadline.
Day 13 of 30. Today users can sign up, log in, and get API keys.
Day 12 of 30. Today we show the world what we're building.
Day 11 of 30. Today we figure out where to put all these images.
Day 10 of 30. Today we make screenshots look right on every device.
Day 9 of 30. Today we make the API actually work - with both instant and queued responses.
Day 8 of 30. Week 2 begins. Today we define the interface before building the implementation.
Day 7 of 30. End of week one. Time to be honest about where we are.
Day 6 of 30. Today we capture our first screenshot. Finally, actual product work.
Day 5 of 30. Today we're talking money - specifically, how to spend as little of it as possible.
Day 4 of 30. Today we're automating deployment before we have much to deploy.
Day 3 of 30. Today we're drawing boxes and arrows before writing our code.
Day 2 of 30. Zero lines of code yesterday, but today we're laying the foundation with our tech stack choices.
The 30-day challenge begins. We're building a screenshot API from scratch, documenting everything publicly.