Timeline for Selling a Micro-SaaS
Published in 2025, this chronicle by @jrhizor details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing.
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 Post-ZIRP & AI (2023–2026)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 21 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 5 comments
Fellow solo dev here. I am happy for you that you saw this through.
I can not imagine spending so much time for so little return though. How many hours do you think you put into this altogether (not just including coding?)
It looks to me like if you were to do the math, you'd find that you were probably working for wages so low they'd be illegal.
Very cool. You built it, shipped it, and sold it.
At first I thought this might be a Nano SaaS, but without a clear definition, I’m now guessing that would be something like one tenth of the numbers you mentioned. So “micro” seems right.
If the term or threshold does not exist, let’s define it as such.