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PerfectElement | 6 years ago

I follow the same philosophy, but my side-project got out of my control and its monthly profits now cover 12x my expenses.

Of course, maintaining it became a lot more stressful than when the MRR was at $10k and I had to hire a small team to help.

I still try to keep things under control by spending most of our time on product and customer support, and zero time/dollars on marketing/ads. This keeps our growth rate manageable (3%-5% per month). I also ignore all interested investors/buyers that want to scale the business.

At our revenue level, I realize I could probably sell the business and never have to work again, but I'm enjoying the ride and afraid of what the pressure to scale could do to our customers.

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aantix|6 years ago

What's your project?

hinkley|6 years ago

Nice try, Mr Bezos.