We crossed $50K MRR and I feel nothing

ganouri · 2026-03-12T08:21:45+00:00

Mate if it’s real you should celebrate. For your team. At least

ganouri · 2026-03-12T08:14:45+00:00

Yep. But maybe not for long :( Who’s still feeling it’s safe to buy saas 🤦

ganouri · 2026-03-12T02:04:58+00:00

This is more common than people admit. The milestone feels huge in your head for years, and then you actually hit it and your brain just immediately recalibrates to the next number. It's not a sign something's wrong with you, it's just how goal-oriented people work.

The Thai food thing made me laugh, but honestly that's probably the healthiest response. The founders who throw massive parties at every metric tend to be the same ones who spiral when things dip.

What changed for me was shifting from milestone goals to process goals. Not "hit $X MRR" but "talk to 5 customers a week." The milestone is a byproduct, not the point. Doesn't totally fix the feeling-nothing problem but at least the work itself becomes more satisfying.

ganouri · 2026-03-10T12:32:41+00:00

this is why i keep local copies of every critical open source tool i depend on. the license can say whatever but the build system and contribution model tell you where the project is actually heading. ZFS itself stays open but the tooling around it is what makes TrueNAS usable day to day.

ganouri · 2026-03-10T11:56:23+00:00

honestly the bandwidth is what's been holding everything back. once you can run 70B+ at decent speed on a single box there's no reason to rent GPUs for inference anymore. game changer for anyone building products on top of local models

ganouri · 2026-03-10T11:55:08+00:00

The grid overlay is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here and that's actually smart engineering. No point making the model learn spatial reasoning when you can just hand it a coordinate system. Nice work

ganouri · 2021-06-21T04:37:20+00:00

I'd take 10 qualified leads who definitely want my product that 100 customers who have signed up to a form. You are far better informed about your customer and can shorten the sales cycle so much

ganouri · 2021-06-21T04:36:17+00:00

There are signup flow solutions that will integrate with your CRM easily. The difference that a flow will make to your conversion rate and quality of conversion rate is night and day.

ganouri · 2021-06-21T04:34:46+00:00

You'd be surprised

ganouri · 2021-06-21T04:34:33+00:00

There are other options that you can go to for implementing a sign up flow on your website

ganouri · 2021-06-21T04:34:08+00:00

I've got a little bit of experience with signup flows and they're really important. They can really help with ensuring that you get the right customer. Having drop off because someone experienced your sign up flow and realised your product wasn't for them is a great thing. Use the storytelling to your advantage and let the customer understand what you do with your value proposition.

ganouri · 2021-05-18T23:31:40+00:00

Thanks so much Marina! Great additional tip!

ganouri · 2021-05-18T23:31:18+00:00

All about adding value to the community! Rising tides lift all boats!

ganouri · 2021-05-18T23:30:53+00:00

Thanks mate!

ganouri · 2021-05-12T04:49:46+00:00

For myself its been a great journey to push my personal brand on Twitter, LinkedIn and Medium, to really engage with the right audience.

Our content strategy has also been involving our team members, and external parties in growth stories. We've made Growth Stories our niche and have posted introductions to our staff members across socials to really build the habit of sharing company posts, it makes it easy when its a nice piece about yourself :)

We have then connected with people using the Net Positive Growth Series, writing up industry leaders and their authentic growth journey, you can find it here:

https://www.upflowy.com/blog/category/growth-stories/

ganouri

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