TwitterShots $500 MRR
Today is the day — TwitterShots hits $500 MRR.
A small milestone, but one that took me a year to reach.
I Almost Gave Up
Honestly, I made many mistakes, there were a few weeks where I thought about just stopping.
Traffic was coming in. Signups were happening. But barely anyone was paying. Free users were using it every day, the server bill kept coming, and I wasn't sure if any of this was worth it.
TwitterShots it has been free to use for a long time, then I made a decision: — I removed it and switched to a limited quota instead.
The people who actually needed the tool paid for it. The people who were just "trying it out" disappeared — and that turned out to be exactly the signal I needed.
The quota change wasn't pushing users away. It was helping me find the right ones. After that, MRR actually started moving.
What I Learned
On SEO: Write about their problems, not your story
When I first started writing content, I wrote about myself — What I wrote reflects what I want to express.
I’m thinking about how users would search for and use my product.
What actually brought in traffic was writing from the user's point of view.
What are they typing into Google? What problem are they stuck on? I started answering those questions instead.
Not my experience — user experience.
That one shift brought more traffic than before.
On building: Validate first, code later
For a while I got completely stuck trying to make the code perfect.
Better folder structure, cleaner architecture, reusable components — I was having fun writing it, but nobody was using any of it.
My rule now is simple: validate first, code later. Make sure someone actually wants the thing before you build it.
Don't spend time polishing something nobody asked for.
On users: Go find real feedback, don't wait for it
Staring at your dashboard won't tell you what users actually think.
I started reaching out — sending emails, replying to every tweet, asking questions in communities.
Yes, I read and write every emails to the paid customers.
A lot of features I thought people would love? Nobody cared.
The gap between what you think users want and what they actually want is huge.
What's Next
TwitterShots isn't going anywhere.
I want to keep building more tools around tweets and social content. I'm also seriously thinking about opening up an API — so developers and teams even AI agent can plug screenshot generation directly into their own workflows.
This is just the start.
Thank you to everyone who has paid for a plan. You're not just paying for a tool — you're telling me this is worth continuing. That means more to me than the $500 number itself.
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