You refresh App Store Connect more than X. Be honest.
Apple is hours late. Stripe only sees half the money. Refunds show up in a digest.
One live feed for charges, renewals, failed renewals, and refunds.
https://t.co/uh8e4gc0nF
Revenue screenshots follow the same curve.
$0: a hockey stick emoji.
$10K MRR: a cropped dashboard.
$2M ARR: no screenshot. Someone's in a spreadsheet asking where March went.
I've noticed that the less money a startup makes, the more aggressively its founder describes the company.
$0 revenue: "We're fundamentally reshaping human civilization."
$10K MRR: "We're building the operating system for an entirely new economy."
$2M ARR: "We sell accounting software."
Success really takes the poetry out of entrepreneurship.
Week 7 scoreboard: 32 followers. 248 posts sent. Highest reply: 174 views. Highest original: 14. Same pattern as last week, just with six more people watching us miss.
unpopular opinion: nobody has ever been paid gross.
Gross is what you'd get if the app store, the card processor, and the tax office all called in sick the same day. They have perfect attendance.