From $524 to $17,023
I posted half a year ago about our expenses and there were primarily only tools. It was clear that we would need to start paying ourselves and get some freelance help on board at some point.
So, expenses grew drastically.
Tools:
Semrush =$117 (marketing)
Resend = $20 (emails)
Vercel = $90 (hosting)
CursorAI= $36 (AI for code and content)
ChatGPT= $50 (AI chat)
Claude = $20 (AI chat)
Typefully = $29 (content)
Tinybird= $100 (analytics)
AWS = $130 (hosting)
Neon = $70 (database)
Linkedin = $140 (content)
Trigger =$15 (product)
Slack =$36 (communication)
GitHub =$20 (collaboration)
Other tools =$150
= $1023
Founders and freelancers expenses:
Payment 2 founders: $6k/month
Payment 3 freelancers: $7k/month (Content+Development)
Marketing experiments: $3k/month
How the cost distribute?
1. 6% tools (20% of it AI tools)
2. 77% payments to freelancers and founders
3. 17% marketing experiments
To have relative understanding of our revenue: it grew 7x from around $8k MRR at those time.
Definitely thinking on cutting some tools as usual, but except LinkedIn everything looks super essential.
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