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SELECT * FROM founders WHERE needs_roasting = true

who is this for

if you have revenue (or should have revenue), the daemon has something to say about it. find your founder type below.

Indie Hackers

Building alone, shipping constantly, and tracking every dollar with evangelical precision.

MRR range: $0–$5KTeam size: 1 person

Solo Founders

No co-founder to reality-check you. No board to hold you accountable. Just you and the chart.

MRR range: $500–$15KCompany age: 6 months–3 years

Bootstrappers

Revenue-first, equity-free, and running every dollar through a filter called "does this compound?"

MRR range: $1K–$50KBusiness age: 1–5 years

Micro-SaaS Builders

Small product. Small team. Disproportionate margins. Every metric matters.

MRR per product: $500–$8KNumber of active products: 1–5

Side Project Builders

You are building something real in the hours no one else is using.

Hours per week on project: 5–20 hoursMRR range: $0–$2K typically

Agency Owners

You sell services. You want to sell software. The gap between those two things is where most agencies die.

Agency MRR (services): $10K–$100KSaaS MRR (early): $0–$5K

Content Creators

You have the audience. You have the trust. You are leaving recurring revenue on the table.

Audience size: 5K–500K followersConversion rate to paid: 0.5–3% of audience

Dev Tools Builders

You are building for people like you. That is an advantage and a trap simultaneously.

GitHub stars to customer ratio: 10–50:1 (healthy)MRR range: $200–$20K

Open Source Maintainers

You built something thousands of people use. Almost none of them pay. Let's fix that.

GitHub stars: 500–50K+Monthly downloads: 1K–1M

Newsletter Operators

You have the inbox. You have the open rates. Now turn attention into recurring revenue.

Total subscriber base: 500–50KPaid conversion rate: 1–5%

Course Creators

You sold the course. Now build the subscription that pays you after the launch ends.

Launch revenue (per launch): $5K–$200KRecurring MRR (between launches): $500–$10K

SaaS Co-founders

Two people, one chart, zero excuses for not knowing your numbers cold.

MRR range: $1K–$50K (broad, team advantage helps)Growth rate advantage vs solo: 1.5–2x faster to first $10K MRR (data suggests)

Pre-Revenue Founders

You have the product. You do not have the revenue. Those are different problems.

Current MRR: $0Time spent building: 1–18 months

Serial Builders

You have shipped five things. Two of them worked. You are about to build the sixth.

Active projects: 3–8Total MRR across portfolio: $500–$30K

Weekend Builders

48 hours every week to build something real. The constraint is the point.

Building hours per week: 10–20 hours (weekend only)MRR range: $0–$1K typically
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$9. 365 roasts. one public endpoint of pure shame.