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TinyPilot: Month 34

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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 seven other people.

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

Highlights

  • We’ve completed transitioning TinyPilot’s fulfillment to a third-party vendor.
  • The local team is escaping their months-long stint in “urgent mode.”
  • Now that production speed isn’t a bottleneck, I can choose a price that optimizes for profitability.

Goal grades

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