Jones needs $15,000 MRR before taking his side project full-time
Spencer Jones · Developer side project gets first 80 customers, $6k in ARR, how'd he do it? · May 20, 2021 · at 13:23
Spencer Jones, creator of Chime Social, discusses the financial threshold needed to transition from his full-time software engineering job to full-time bootstrapping.
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“I think it's going to be a while. We live in a fairly expensive area. I've got a wife and two kids. So Yeah, I mean, in the 15,000 MRR range.”
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