Controversial crime app Citizen launches $20/month Protect service
Published in 2021, this chronicle by @WaitWaitWha details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing. Key verified financial milestone: $20/month.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Charging customers from day one acts as the ultimate filter for building software that solves genuine, high-urgency problems.
Keeping fixed overhead low and leveraging lean infrastructure allows founders to stay alive until market tailwinds kick in.
Small, repetitive improvements in customer retention and conversion rates yield massive returns over multi-year horizons.
Community Debate Themes:
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
CATEGORY Bootstrapping & MRR →
HISTORICAL ERA Pandemic Bubble (2020–2022)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 16 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 3 comments
Privatizing security could lead to a situation where criminal organizations make places unsafe and hire out their goons to be ‘agents’. Just thinking about how this actually scales.
Remember, for private education to catch on, you must get it into people’s minds that public education cannot work (does not work).
Same goes for private health insurance.
Get some people to start robbing weddings, and pretty soon you’ll have to budget for security in this brave new world for your goddamn wedding, birthday party, or a night out.