Financially, it's been tough - after 10 months Dependabot makes $2,100 a month (although that's now growing quite fast). I know I'm the kind of personality that couldn't have started it at the same time as working a full time job, though - I need to be really focussed on one thing at a time.
I can't stress enough how valuable (from a learning perspective) sales was for Dependabot, but only after I started targeting the right people. For Dependabot that was commenting on open-source dependency update PRs (that people had created manually).
The above would have to change if I started doing serious sales, in which case I’d need a higher number to justify the time involved.
- What it does and who it's for, in one clear sentence at the top
- How it works, in three clear steps
- A list of features that implicitly addresses common concerns
- Simple pricing
- Nice clean look
Really well done.