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Shipping
“Over the weekend I actually built it at least the first version that was usable and pushed out on Monday the launch tweet and it got like 100k views and then soon after the first customers came and were asking 'Can we give you money to buy the service?'”
Weekend MVP to Monday launch tweet: 100K views, first paying customers
A two-day build-and-ship cycle meant real customer intent could be tested within 72 hours of the original idea tweet. The unsolicited payment requests validated commercial viability before any pricing or business model had been designed — proof that the urgency of shipping beats the perfectionism of planning.
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Mark Khlestkin
Papermark$75K MRR
Starter Story
How We Built It: $900K Open Source SaaS· 1:36