What happened after Simon went full time on his SaaS?

This podcast is hosted by transistor dot f m. Hey, everybody. Welcome to what build your SaaS. This is the behind the scenes story of building a web app, bootstrapping your own thing, getting to a significant amount of revenue so that you can quit your day job. And, this week, John is away, but I caught up with Simon Bennett of snapshooter.io. I last spoke to him in May, I believe, right when the the pandemic was kind of in full force. And, I thought it would be a good idea to catch up, see what has happened since then. He had just quit his day job. Yeah. Let's see how things have developed since then. So, Simon, the last time we chatted, I think, was seven months ago. Yes. May. Yes. Just after I'd gone full time. Or You just gone Quit my job. Yeah. You just gone you you like, you were going full time the next morning on and you were you're going full time on Snap Shooter. Yeah. How how long have you been working on Snap Shooter up until that point? It started in February 2017. So coming up to the four year anniversary soon. Okay. So it it was about three years to get you to the point where you could go full time? Yep. That's right. Yep. So I took the leap a little bit earlier just due to circumstances with COVID and family and having essentially two jobs. But it's it seems to have paid off. Yeah. Yeah. So since you went full time Mhmm. How's it been? Are you living the bootstrapper's dream or what? I don't know what the bootstrapper's dream is, but, revenue has definitely increased, and the and the trajectory of revenue has sort of increased, from when I quit, if that makes sense. So it'll there's some sort of correlation between putting more effort in and getting more reward out. Oh, interesting. Because that's not always the case. Sometimes people quit Mhmm. And what they find is that even though they have all this extra time and all this extra energy, it doesn't actually move the needle that much. But for you, you feel it has. Yes. So while maybe not like I don't know. There's a bit of lag in the revenue charts or whatever, but it it definitely feels like it's been key. I had a lot more time to think from a more zoomed out perspective of the business. So I think that's that's been probably the best thing about it. Yeah. And can you give us a sense of, like, how are you're how you're doing revenue wise? I like, I've doubled revenue this year. You've doubled revenue in 2020? Yes. Yep. Yep. Monthly recurring revenue has doubled here. Wow. So so pretty successful year for you. Yes. Yes. Definitely. And and you're just saying most of that growth happened once you decided to, go full time. One yes. So I decided …