#266 – Lessons Learned Building a $37k/mo Business in 2.5 Years with Mat De Sousa of WideBundle

Hey. How's it going, Matt? Hey. What's up? Welcome to the show. Let me introduce you, Matt. You're Matt D'Souza. You are an indie hacker, and you tweeted on July, you tweeted, I built five Shopify apps, and it makes me over $340,000 a year, which is amazing. Yeah. It makes me more today. But, yeah, that was Oh, yeah. With what are the revenue numbers that are? How much? $450,000. Wow. Okay. Per year period. Yeah. Yeah. I see you on your Twitter profile now. You updated your bot. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. 37 k a month. How long did it take you to get there? It's crazy. Like, was this like if you've been working on these apps for, like, ten years? Yeah. Two years in in the health. Something like that. Because I started Two and a half years? Yeah. I started in May 2020, so that's it. Wow. That's amazing. Do you have, like, a team? Do you have business partners? Did you raise money? Like, how much is this you? How much are are you being helped? Yeah. So I started alone. So I was the only one in the project when I started. Six months in, maybe a bit less, I hired the first person because I didn't expect that growth. So basically, someone joined the team, but only for customer support. And so today we are five in the team. I have, like, two developers, one person for marketing and one person for customer support. And there is me, obviously, I'm doing everything. Doing all this in two years is insane. But I have to say that, I mean, the 340,000 to 400 and what, 50,000 between July what, like, six months to five months is really insane. Yeah. You just gave yourself a 100 k raise in five months. Yeah. But basically That's a big deal. That that was complicated because, you know, I had the the big growth, like, in the beginning, because in in something like six months, I went from 0 to 10 k per month. So, that was, like huge growth. And in less than a year, we were at 25 ks. Right. I thought I was going to reach like, well, I don't know, like 100,000 in two years or something like that. And the only thing is that I was stuck at 25, you know, and I didn't know what was like, what was happening and something. And once I found why I was stuck, you know, I started to grow again and we're growing. So that's cool. How did it feel to get to 25 so fast? I mean, going from, like, $0, you know, perhaps working for yourself Yeah. Working for others. And then suddenly, you know, you've got your own sustainable business that's, like, crushing it so quickly. Like, did your life change? Did your outlook change? Like, How did that feel emotionally to start making so much money on your own? Yeah. …