Good Problems

Michele Hansen 00:00

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Colleen Schnettler 01:17

Hey, Michele, it's so good to talk to you.

Michele Hansen 01:19

I feel like it's been forever.

Colleen Schnettler 01:22

It has. I think it's been three weeks since we've recorded together.

Michele Hansen 01:26

So I'm not gonna lie. I am dying to know how things are going.

Colleen Schnettler 01:35

Sure. So as I have mentioned several times on this podcast, the past couple of weeks have been really busy for me. We have moved and work has been just very intense. And so I honestly didn't even check my numbers for like three weeks, which sounds ridiculous, but I just wasn't in the mental space for it. So in preparation of today's podcast, I did check. And I'm now at $515 MRI.

Michele Hansen 02:04

Dude!

Colleen Schnettler 02:06

Right? Yes, I think the beautiful thing about this -

Michele Hansen 02:10

Wow.

Colleen Schnettler 02:10

Yeah, no, I just feel like the beautiful thing about this is just, I was able to just let it sit. Now to be fair, I always check my email. So even when I was on, I don't have time for this mode, like I always check my email just in case of you know, someone and my match, not my metrics, but like my stats to make sure everything is up. So it wasn't that I was neglecting the product. But I was definitely neglecting, like even checking how many people were signed up. And so that was like a great surprise. Like, just really cool to see.

Michele Hansen 02:43

Last time we talked you were at like, three something. Right? And you were like, kind of like some right?

Colleen Schnettler 02:51

Yeah, I think that's right. And I think I think this shows that getting too obsessed with like, checking every week. Like, I like to check. I mean, I check every week usually, but becoming too obsessed with it really can swing, you know, emotionally high and low. So it was actually kind of nice to just like, sit on it. And then see it increase.

Michele Hansen 03:12

That's pretty awesome. Wait a year, like six weeks into this now? What was it?

Colleen Schnettler 03:21

It was February fourth.

Michele Hansen 03:22

Feburary fourth you were able to start having paying customers.

Colleen Schnettler 03:25

Yep. So it's two months. I'm over 500 MRR in two months.

Michele Hansen 03:28

That's faster than we grew.

Colleen Schnettler 03:31

Oh, wow. That's cool to hear.

Michele Hansen 03:32

Yeah, I think it took us like, I don't know, five or six months to break 500.

Colleen Schnettler 03:38

Oh, my gosh. And now you make all the money. There's hope for me.

Michele Hansen 03:46

That's insane.

Colleen Schnettler 03:47

So that's really cool. Yeah, I'm feeling really good about it. Yeah, so I think it's kind of also, you know, when you're stressed about other things, this is all - self doubt always creeps in. And so last week I was I was kind of in a little bit of a self doubt spiral, not spiral. That's the wrong word. But like, kind of in a self doubt, place, thinking that this like, again, was like, I don't know if this is going to work. But then I checked my numbers and things are going really well. And I haven't even implemented any of those amazing ideas you shared in your last deploying empathy newsletter.

Michele Hansen 04:25

So your revenue grew without you adding any new features.

Colleen Schnettler 04:31

Yeah, how about that?

Michele Hansen 04:34

Isn't that interesting?

Colleen Schnettler 04:36

It's like someone said that might happen. Who would have given that great advice to stop adding features.

Michele Hansen 04:44

But you're also like you were doing customer support during this time? It sounds like.

Colleen Schnettler 04:48

Yeah, I'm always - well, no one emailed me because no one ever emails me. Wait, hold on. So your revenue increased and nobody needed to talk to you.

Michele Hansen 04:58

That's exactly correct.

Colleen Schnettler 05:01

Right, like it's pretty cool. I feel pretty cool about it. So, yeah, so I'm feeling good. And I'm like kind of reenergized once I'm back at work next week to really focus on some of these marketing tasks and, and to start asking people to do customer interviews again. Because I still feel like I have momentum.

Michele Hansen 05:23

It sounds like it.

Colleen Schnettler 05:25

Yeah. Yeah. So that's, that's what I've been up to.