Do you have product market fit, and just need to do more marketing? If so, I would keep going. Otherwise, I'd probably be a bit burnt out after 3 years of no PMF.
How do you tell product market fit? we have about ~1K paid users, people constantly send positive praises, but also many people churned away.
I doubt if "bootstrap" is the right way for this type of product/market.
The famous PMF survey (how do you feel if you can no longer use this), %50.8 responds with "very disappointed". And I deeply know this product is pretty unique offering in "finance tracking" market.
But the MRR stays in this level for 6 months now. I feel I do not have ideas to break it through.
Thanks! Some competitor did pretty well, the total addressable market should be huge enough, for example Intuit Mint claims to have 10M (free) users, some funded companies benefits a lot from its shutdown.
A session recording and product analytics tool: https://scryspell.com/
I built it because I thought session recording was such a cool feature, and wanted to know how to make one.
I have a version 1.0, and now working on how to sell and market in a crowded product space!
Currently it's meant to help devs fix UI and UX issues by seeing exactly what their users saw, including a log of the browser console and network traffic.
I say currently because it has preset analytics (charts for top entry page, top exit page, etc) but am working on letting users define their own trend and funnel charts. That will open it up to basic web/product analytics.
The goal is to be simple analytics + session recording w/ masking.
1. For me, at a senior dev level, about half are multiple rounds of leetcode / system design and the other half are some sort of live coding something more practical.
2. I think they're mostly just making calls to the existing LLM's apis.
3. I ask myself why I started the pet project. If it was to learn something new, well, I probably got bored because I learned the the part that was interesting to me.
I used to use squeaky.ai which was a pretty simple session recording tool, but they got tired of running it and shut it down. PostHog is pretty great and with a generous free tier, but I get overwhelmed by their huge UI since it's such a large product now.
The core of the product is session recording, which I implemented using the rrweb library, which itself uses the Mutation Observer API. Everything else is pretty standard React/TypeScript/TanQuery for the front, Java/SpringBoot/PostgreSQL for the back.
No users, but working through the journey of trying to become a better copy writer / product manager / marketer! I've been getting some great advice on how to improve my landing page which has been exciting.
Have you checked Microsoft Clarifty - https://clarity.microsoft.com - it allows to generate heatmap and do session recording as well. And it is free. What are advantages of https://scryspell.com over it ?
The method I've been going with recently is to just clone an existing app. I was inspired by max rozen blogging about building the '200th uptime checker'.
https://maxrozen.com/#bootstrapping-onlineornot
I've made a pdf bankstatement to csv app and now working on a session recording app.
The bank statement tool hovered around break even, but ultimately I shut it down since I hit a point where I was just grinding out integrations with different pdf bank statements, which got old, and had no end in sight.
