We Did it — $1000 Per Month Reached

Hey, we’re @edmoyse and @hyharryhuang. We create products with no investment whilst travelling the world. After a few failures, we created this blog to focus on one goal that seemed attainable — make $1000 per month. After 3 months, we did it. New goal: build a profitable company

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Apr 4, 2016

How Our Side Project Hit $1000 MRR

Last summer Harry and I were essentially broke. We’d spent 5 months working on Hey Press, a searchable database of startup journalists. It proved to be very popular with startups, but we had very few paying customers and a dismal monthly recurring revenue of $55.17.

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Ed Moyse in We Did it — $1000 Per Month Reached

Dec 17, 2015

We’re Growth-Hacking LinkedIn. Here’s How.

As a B2B startup, we’ve found LinkedIn really powerful in pin-pointing new potential customers. Where LinkedIn falls down is actually connecting with those people (does anybody actually read their LinkedIn messages?… mine is just filled with InMail spam…

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Ed Moyse in We Did it — $1000 Per Month Reached

Oct 5, 2015

September = Finding Our Vision

Since Harry and I have been working together we’ve built a lot of different products — from a bitcoin wallet to a gesture-based iOS 8 keyboard to a tool that finds your most influential upvoters on Product Hunt. It’s been a lot of fun, but we’ve been all-over-the-place. It’s…

Ed Moyse in We Did it — $1000 Per Month Reached

Sep 7, 2015

August = Focussing on Product and Growth

Suffice to say, we’re lucky to have you guys — with little marketing effort on our part…

Ed Moyse in We Did it — $1000 Per Month Reached

Aug 3, 2015

3 Things I Wish I Knew About Selecting A Startup Idea

I’ve now been building products for a couple of years — of which 1 year has been alongside Harry. While we’ve built a lot of cool tools like Product Friends (a tool to engage with your Product Hunt upvoters), QWERKY (an iOS 8 Keyboard…

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Aug 3, 2015

July = $1111.67/mo… we did it!

Harry and I have found the last couple of months really enjoyable — as well as building products we love, people actually want them and are buying them! Granted, $1111.67/mo is a bad salary for 2 software developers, but we’re growing fast in the right direction.

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Jul 3, 2015

June = $443.36

At an increase of 266% from May, we’re super pleased with this month’s growth —we’re now raking in more than enough to feed ourselves entirely on these!

Here’s what we’ve been focussing on:

Growing JournoRequests.com, the tool we launched at the end…

Ed Moyse in We Did it — $1000 Per Month Reached

Jun 3, 2015

May = $121.17

Make it rain! Drinks on us! #StartupLife… or not ಥ_ಥ

Ed Moyse in We Did it — $1000 Per Month Reached

Apr 27, 2015

3 Easy Ways to Nail Your Product Hunt Launch!

… and why we built productfriends.com

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Ed Moyse in We Did it — $1000 Per Month Reached

Apr 18, 2015

New to our blog? Start here ☺

Who are we? What’re we up to? Why?…

Welcome Internet friend — wipe your feet and come on in! This blog is all about our adventure to try and reach $1000 in monthly recurring revenue. We hope you find it interesting — but first…

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Hey, we’re @edmoyse and @hyharryhuang. We create products with no investment whilst travelling the world. After a few failures, we created this blog to focus on one goal that seemed attainable — make $1000 per month. After 3 months, we did it. New goal: build a profitable company

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