384: Podscan's Profitability Milestone: What's Next?

Hey. It's Arvid, and this is the Bootstrap founder. This episode is sponsored by paddle.com, the merchant of record that has been responsible for allowing me to reach the revenue goal that I will share with you in a minute here. Paddle truly is more, that's MOR, Merchant of Record, because their product has allowed me to focus on building a business that people actually wanna pay money for as a customer. And not only that, but Paddle just yesterday sent me an email that they recovered a payment from a customer whose credit card had expired. And that's why Paddle does more for you. They deal with taxes, they reach out to customers with failed payments, and they bring the money back in. They charge in people's local currency to make it easy. It's quite amazing. So check out paddle.com to learn more. Before we get to the big thing today, a quick update on what I tasked myself to get done this week. Pivoting the positioning of PodScan from this all over the place kind of website to clearly focusing on the kinds of customers that really drive revenue. Took me a couple days but I finally pivoted the homepage to be much more upfront about the data platform nature of PodScan. And I created two sub landing pages, one for data customers and one for those who need alerts. So now instead of this weird chimera landing page that does everything and nothing, I give people the option to choose their own adventure and show them distinctly tailored landing pages depending on what they came to PodScan for. So this is a first step in my repositioning efforts, not the last one. Obviously, this is gonna change over time, but I'm glad I got it done within the deadline that I set to myself. And I'm telling you, having a podcast does wonders for accountability. I have to commit to stuff because I promise it to you. So I kinda have to keep it. So I promise to share something else with you today. Now it's the April 2025. It's been almost a year to the day that PodScan got its Bootstrapper compatible funding, and it has taken me this long, one year, to reach the very first goal that I set for myself that day back in April 2024, becoming profitable before the funds run out. And that goal has been reached. The profitability part. And over the last several months, I have slowly but surely ramped up revenue, generated customers, found the right customers that wanted to pay the right amounts of money for the quality of the data that I offer, had them stick around, and made PodScan profitable. And I think this is quite the accomplishment. And it's something that I thought would happen much faster than it did, which is my own problem, my own internal expectation, but it has happened. It's taken a year to get to this point, but it …