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TinyPilot: Month 29

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Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people.

Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my business and in my professional life overall.

Highlights

  • TinyPilot generated $112k of monthly revenue, breaking the six-figure mark for the first time ever.
  • I grossly overestimated how much spare capacity TinyPilot’s fulfillment team had.
  • Long-term tasks can be a canary for impending resource exhaustion.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals: