Ask HN: How long did it take you to get your first sale for your side project?

I built my project for myself, and started using it about a week after I'd first run `git init`. Once I did that I spent several weeks making it prettier, writing documentation, and before that was complete I had my first user.

I think it took me about a month to get my second user, and another month before I broke ten. Nowadays I seem to get 3-5 users every week for a free trial, a third of which go on to pay. So the growth is somewhat random and irregular.

For my first one, it took me about 6 months, and lots of cold calling and networking.

However this was a B2B product, and worth £100k a year, so quite large sales.