Hey everyone,

Wanted to share a small milestone that honestly feels bigger than the number itself.

A few months ago, I started building a tiny SaaS called Redirectly. The original idea was very simple: I kept running into pain around deep links, attribution, and redirects while working on mobile apps, so I decided to scratch my own itch instead of duct-taping solutions every time.

At first, nothing happened.
Zero users. Zero revenue. Just logs, bugs, and a lot of “why am I doing this at night after work”.

Then slowly: - a few people signed up
- someone actually integrated it
- and recently… I saw my first real payments coming in

So far it’s $377 total revenue.

Not life-changing money, but emotionally it hit hard — this is the first time something I built from scratch on my own made money on the internet.

What I learned so far

shipping imperfect > waiting for perfect
real users expose problems you’ll never think of
distribution is harder than coding
even tiny revenue is incredibly motivating
“build in public” actually helps you stay consistent

I’m still very early, still fixing onboarding, docs, UX, and trying to understand what users actually need. No growth hacks yet, no ads — mostly organic and conversations.

Posting this mostly to stay accountable and maybe encourage someone else who’s stuck at “almost launched”.

Happy to answer questions or share what worked / didn’t.
If you’re building something too — what stage are you at?

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