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TinyPilot: Month 35

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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

  • I frantically tried to come up with $250k for a large expense.
  • I evaluate how a contract manufacturer will change my finances.
  • Outsourcing to a 3PL vendor is less expensive than I expected.

Goal grades

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