RevTrakkr

Stop refreshing App Store Connect.
Apple + Stripe in one live feed. Built for founders, not finance teams.

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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

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Ship it Saturday and the weekend turns into a two-day loading screen. Monday is when you find out whether it made a dime.

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@AlexTamano A 179-day hold with ads still running. Revenue on paper, ad bills on autopay, cash somewhere in between.

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@tyd3n_ €67.78 after 60 days means strangers already paid for it. Distribution is just finding more of those strangers.

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@pggalaviz 1,608 clicks and zero paying. Meta ran a very expensive survey and every answer came back no.

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@rjozefowicz Zero lifetime buyers at $24.99 while subs climbed 25 to 28. Customers picked the monthly bill over forever.

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@leo_mercerr Followers before users is the rarer problem. Most builders on day 17 have a product and nobody watching.

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@GabrielNolo Trial-to-paid up 10% from showing the value instead of describing it. Paywalls are terrible at adjectives.

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@RealKulpreet Useless for the bank account, anyway. Great for the case study slide.

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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.

[Shaun Gold | Venture Comedy @butshaunn]

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.

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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.

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@SamVale29 Other people's MRR is a terrible warm-up for your own workday.

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@TrafficBrokerX Chart applause vs bank deposit. Only one of those buys groceries.

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@DevAfter5 The quiet ones skip the MRR theater and still get paid. Wild concept.

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@louis_harwood Industry knowledge covering for the codebase is the plot twist nobody screenshots.

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@dopiotrek Missing Stripe pings is comfort. Missing a bolt on site is a different sport.

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@fialaerik Self-serve fantasy was unpaid labor wearing a product mask.

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@dubcovX Yep. Features ship once. The reconciliation never clocks out.

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The chart celebrated. Nine days later the bank sent the quieter version.

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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.