I’m glad that when life gets tough, the fact that I have a business doesn’t necessarily mean it needs to make life tougher. I can pull back a bit and focus on what’s truly important and go back to everything later. #buildinpublic

Complicated part about being a founder: Having loud customers with opposing opinions.

You have to make a choice. No matter which choice you make you're going to upset one side. They will openly viciously bash you.

How do you deal with this?

#buildinpublic

Throwback to a year ago today: 3 months old and 2 orders processed in 1 day was amazing.

Now: Yesterday was as slow day and we had 501 orders.

You need to start somewhere! A slow beginning is part of the process.

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

Throwback to last year.

It took 10 agonizing days after launch to get our first transaction.

Now we average 255 transactions a day.

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Any indie hackers have experience donating a portion of their profit to charity?

Would be interested in donating some of WishTenders profit to lucid dream research or using it for my own lucid dream research.

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Broke 1m all time GMV! #buildinpublic #indiehackers

Totally redoing the leaderboard. The more gifts people got the more it slowed down until it finally got so slow that it only returns request timeouts. Hope to get this back up tomorrow or Friday.

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WishTender is 1 year old!

✅7000+ users
✅$776.5k gift funds sent to users
And we're finally pulling in real profit (~$14k+ in June).

Many ups + downs but WishTender progressed more than I thought possible.

Thanks to all who supported my journey!

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

tagging #buildinpublic #indiehackers for help

Yesterday, WishTender beat our latest GMV-in-a-day record of $16.1k (which we set only 3 days ago) with an almost $40k day yesterday! But this one is going to be hard to beat..

#buildinpublic #indiehackers #bootstrapping

Hit a new record for gross market volume in a single day!

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
#buildinpublic #indiehackers

I want to meet more bootstrappers!

Share:
1. What you're building and for who
2. Where are you in your journey (pre launch, $10 MRR, $100k MRR, 100 users... etc)

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

May Recap

This month WishTender jumped from $90k gmv/m to $230k gmv/m.

We're finally bringing in some real profit at $10.9K/m.

Plus I got $3.2k in gifts as a WishTender user!

I didn't think I would pass 10k this soon or ever. Kind of amazed.

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

Do you have any meme marketing tips or favorite memes you made?

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3D secure ftw- saving me money, time, and headache.

No card testers. No fake/friendly fraud disputes. No legitimate fraud disputes. No investigating suspicious users. No dealing with incompetent banks. For now, the checkout friction seems worth it.

#buildinpublic #indiehacker

What was the first position you added to your business?

For WishTender, my spouse started helping with odd jobs, mostly DMs. Now he is the community manager. However, neither of us take salaries, so in a way we are both just interns.
#buildinpublic #indiehackers

I don't want to put my product in jeopardy by having someone misinterpret something I posted. But I also don't want to stop learning and sharing.

#buildinpublic and #indiehackers- anyone dealt with building in public resulting in misguided criticism as your product grows?

Wishtender GMV/month

July: $190
Aug: $197
Sep: $555
Oct: $3.5k
Nov: $3.3k
Dec: $12k
Jan: $31.5k
Feb: $40k
Mar: $64.7k

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

The good: Hit some mile stones, today. 2000+ users and 2000+ wish baskets.

The bad: Got our first friendly fraud chargeback. Fighting it.

#indiehackers #buildinpublic

@BernyMWeiss @arvidkahl @dagorenouf Twitter audience doesn’t necessarily correlate to sales. My followers aren’t my target market. I do #buildinpublic to share what I learn and make connections with other founders, not to get sales. If your market IS other founders then the two correlate of course.