$1K MRR — Feb 9, 2024

What happened:

• Linkout hit $1K MRR. 😀

How it happened:

• From my other blog, Linkout:
  • Building part-time. Maybe.
• If Linkout were to have a future, this should've been it.
• So for the sake of curiosity, heavily inspired by Tooljet, Reactflow, and Portkey, we publicized a repo of 6 features of Linkout and got 100+ stars within a week.
• We had users using it from early various-stage startups like Growth School. All of it inbound.
• One such ping was from an early-stage startup that had more feature requests to connect CRM with LinkedIn data. We signed them in, marking them our first enterprise client. Also making us a $1K in monthly recurring revenue business.
• We then set up an API gateway, got added to their Slack channel, and shipped the APIs to them.
• Last time I was into international transfers was during my 11 standard tinkering freelancer.com. So, I had to figure out the present best choice. We found out that wise.com was seamless. We asked the clients to schedule recurring payments via wise.com.

Statement:

• A maxim from the book 'Rework': Anyone who runs a sustainable and profitable business, whether big or small, should be proud.
• 100% margin, a lean team, a business involving invoices, bills, payments, and high-value product - done.