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That $142 is the first money anyone has ever paid me for software, and it took two years and a pivot to get it. The first two years: I built an no-code LLM workflow platform. Visual builder, deployments, an MCP server, an n8n node, a GitHub Action. Good engineering, I still think so. Zero users. Not "few". Zero. I was building what I found interesting and assuming the audience would show up. The pivot, in June: instead of inventing a product, I went to where people already complain in public. Atlassian runs a public issue tracker for Jira and Confluence. Some feature requests have been open for a decade with hundreds of votes and a comment from Atlassian saying "gathering interest". Those threads are a list of things people have literally asked to pay for. So the loop became: Find a request with hundreds of votes and no fix. The one in the title has 407. Build the smallest app that closes it. It runs inside the customer's own Atlassian site, so there are no servers for me to run. List it on the Atlassian Marketplace. They handle billing and payouts. Go back to the exact thread that asked and reply: "I built this, here it is." Every voter gets the email. Eleven small apps later (audit log retention past 180 days, who-can-see-what reports, dead-seat detection, cleanup after a user leaves, single-project backup, that kind of thing), a company I have never spoken to installed one and paid. The video is the Marketplace sales page. One dot. Best dot I have ever seen. The apps, if you happen to admin Jira or Confluence: https://katabarwalabs.dev/atlassian   submitted by   /u/WillingConversation4 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/15 09:40:58