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How a Solo Dev Hit 10K MRR With a Developer Tool and No Sales Team
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the story of a solo developer who built a SQL query optimization tool and hit $10,000 monthly recurring revenue entirely through developer communities and word-of-mouth. No sales calls, no paid ads, no enterprise contracts. They walk through the specific strategies that worked: a viral Hacker News post that drove the first 500 users, a free tier that turned power users into advocates, and a pricing model that scaled naturally with usage. Lucas digs into the numbers, including how the 30-day free trial converted at 18 percent and how a single Reddit…
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