I blogged about my first foray into the world of creating a web app that would generate recurring revenue for me here [0]. It was my first attempt.
I attempted two other web apps which also had dismal results, before my fourth (current) one, which is doing great and getting better.
Since writing that blog post, that particular web app (which is still running BTW) has had a handful of users sign up and is generating around $40-$50 per month. It covers the AWS cost, and lets me buy a beer every month, so I figure I will just let it tick along... :D
Feel free to ping me to reply to this thread if you want any more information, but the (somewhat long) blog post pretty much explains it all.
Your experience corresponds to mine almost exactly, have you written anything about your subsequent attempts, and the one that finally succeeded? No contact info in your profile btw.
Apologies, I will have to fix up my bio on here. I killed the old one to put in the Keybase identifier and never went back to fix it...
My current SaaS app that is actually doing well and making money (and just hit profitability) is www.hrpartner.io
I blog about some aspects of it at http://devan.blaze.com.au amongst other things. One day I will sit down and construct a full post on that particular journey, but I am afraid that survivorship bias might take over and I will forget some of the hard stuff that happened...
I attempted two other web apps which also had dismal results, before my fourth (current) one, which is doing great and getting better.
Since writing that blog post, that particular web app (which is still running BTW) has had a handful of users sign up and is generating around $40-$50 per month. It covers the AWS cost, and lets me buy a beer every month, so I figure I will just let it tick along... :D
Feel free to ping me to reply to this thread if you want any more information, but the (somewhat long) blog post pretty much explains it all.
[0] - https://medium.com/@dsabar/the-zero-dollar-web-app-8886bf4ae...