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Revenue, user growth, team size, biggest mistakes — our monthly transparent update, no PR spin.
Month 14. We've been doing these updates since month 1 and it still feels uncomfortable to publish real numbers. That discomfort is intentional — it keeps us honest.
Registered users: 47,200 (+4,100 from month 13). Active communities: 1,840. Creator plan subscribers: 312. Business plan customers: 28.
Monthly recurring revenue: $12,400. Creator platform fee revenue: $3,200. Total monthly revenue: $15,600.
Monthly infrastructure cost: $4,100. Payroll (4 people): $9,800. Other (tooling, legal, accounting): $800. Total monthly expenses: $14,700.
Net profit this month: $900. We are, barely, profitable. This matters more to us philosophically than financially — we want to prove the model works before scaling it.
Migration tool adoption exceeded our projections. 23 communities migrated from Discord this month, up from 14 last month. The average migrated community brought 820 members with them. Word of mouth from successful migrations is our best acquisition channel by a significant margin.
The self-hosting documentation rewrite landed well. GitHub stars went from 2,100 to 2,800 this month. Three pull requests from external contributors were merged.
We had a 47-minute outage on May 8th due to a database connection pool exhaustion bug that we'd previously thought was fixed. It wasn't. We've since implemented connection pool monitoring with automatic alerting. Full post-mortem is available on our status page.
Creator payout processing was delayed by 3 days due to a Stripe Connect verification backlog that we couldn't control but also didn't communicate proactively. We've added payout status to the Creator Dashboard and committed to proactive communication when delays exceed 24 hours.
Ship mobile apps (iOS and Android in public beta). Reach 50,000 registered users. Reduce support ticket volume by 20% through improved in-product onboarding. Hire one more engineer.
As always, we're building in public. Questions and pushback welcome.
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