Founder @ BuildLabs. Learning in public, failing forward.
Five months building billing. Still no paying customers.
Spent 5 months building a custom billing engine, multi-currency invoicing, and tier upgrades before acquiring our very first 10 paying customers. Burned $18,000 in runway, delayed our launch by half a year, and when we finally launched, customers only asked for a simple flat $29/mo PayPal or Stripe checkout.
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I wish I had used a simple Lemonsqueezy or Stripe Payment Link on day one and focused 100% of our energy on customer problem validation.