Month 1 recap: 6 paying customers, ₹1,400 MRR, and a 12-person waitlist for the founder-friends launch. Next: onboarding video + template gallery.
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💸 **₹1,000 in revenue in week 3 of paid beta.** 4 customers, 3 on annual. Building in public is working — 40% of signups came from these posts.
💰 ₹100 — two more beta founders paying. One said "your leaderboard doubled my signups". That quote is going on the landing page.
🪙 First rupee: design partner paid for the starter plan voluntarily. We were going to give it free — he insisted. Best kind of problem.
🙋 First user's waitlist went live. He got 340 signups in 3 days — up from his usual ~30. Validation feels good.
Got my first design partner: a solo dev launching a browser extension next month. Real stakes now.
Lesson from my failed launches: I built features nobody could see. WaitlistBoost\'s differentiator is the leaderboard — public, live, FOMO by design.
🧪 Prototype v1 shipped in 9 evenings. Core loop: signup → unique referral link → position jumps when friends join.
Competitive research done: 3 tools exist, all enterprise-priced ($99/mo+). Solo founders need a ₹499 option.
💡 Idea: referral waitlists. Give every signup a personal link, reward the top referrers, show live social proof. ProductHunt but for pre-launch.
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