(Continued from Part 2)

Here's where I'm at: So far, I've enjoyed working solo, but working with other people sounds like fun, too. At this point, if I were to work with other people, it'd be in the context of me hiring employees rather than finding co-founders. (Perhaps a topic for another day: Over the last several months, one of my best friends and I explored whether he might join me as a co-founder, but it ended up not being the right time and situation. We're both still excited about working together at some point, and given how many working years we have ahead of us, I'm pretty confident that it'll happen.)

My current plan is to stay bootstrapped and keep doing solo until the revenue can support adding someone to the team. The number that I have right now is $10k MRR — once I hit that milestone, I'd feel pretty comfortable using that to hire contractors and then hopefully find someone who's a good fit to join full-time. That said, I'm basically kicking this can down the road. Once I hit $10k MRR, I might decide that I'm actually perfectly happy running everything on my own and that it's a sustainable way to grow. Or, more likely, I might find that I want to have someone who can help out with support/engineering/etc. and be really excited to bring someone on.

The Silicon Valley way would be to raise money and hire ASAP to try to grow as quickly as possible, but I don't see the point of that for me. I'm happy in my day-to-day work, and I'm in no rush to grow. People have asked me if I worry about competitors, and I don't — I think there's enough room in this space for many companies to thrive, and I tend to see other people in the automation space as fellow nerds who share similar passions rather than The Competition That I Must Defeat.

In summary:

• I don't have a set vision for where I want to take Browserflow, but I'm comfortable figuring it out as I go
• I would like to design the business in such a way where I have autonomy over my time (e.g. being able to easily take a few weeks off for a meditation retreat)
• I'm not interested in selling Browserflow unless it's for a stupid amount of money
  • I'm basically ruined when it comes to working for someone else but I'd be fine getting a life-changing amount of money to hand things off and go travel/meditate/pursue all my hobbies
• I'm planning to continue solo until I get to $10k monthly recurring revenue — then I'll re-evaluate
• I don't know where the confidence that It Will All Of Course Work Out comes from, but I'm grateful that it's there

P.S. I intended these posts to be about my ideal lifestyle (i.e. what an ideal day/routine would look like) but it ended up being more about my medium term plans for Browserflow...? idk man

<aside> 👋🏼 You're reading Road to Ramen, my public journal where I think aloud and share everything I learn in exploring the question: Can I make a living building things I love?

by DK the Human (@dk_the_human)

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