My partner and I are about to release our first SaaS app and I'm starting to get worried that there's really no market for it.<p>How long did it take you to get your first $100 and first $1000 in rev, and what strategies did you use to get customer flow?
Way to long. First customer took forever. I almost wrote it off. Then I went from 0 customers to 3 in 1 month. A little blogging and google ads is all I've done so far.<p>All told say 12 months from building it to the first $100. Say another 4-6 months to hit $1000. Obviously its a side effort and I'm not getting rich off of it. But I don't put a lot of effort into it either. If you ignore the development time costs, its pretty profitable right now.<p>I'm going to start doing some real marketing and hopefully it will start gaining more traction. One thing I still find strange is how customers come in bunches. Nothing for a while then a bunch all at once.<p>The monthly cost will be a big difference in when you hit your revenue goals. I have an idea I'm toying with right now, that if I implement it and it works, would be $300-500 a month per customer, so I would be able to hit those numbers a lot quicker. But then again it would be a longer sales cycle.<p>What is your app?<p>Good luck and enjoy. That first customer is a very rewarding experience.