On Friday I took my first salary as a founder. Paid by revenue. Not investment. My first one ever. So proud. Most startups die before they make $1. We ve been making revenue for 8 months. Even after pivoting from @Dolphin AI. I don t take this lightly. But it isn t about money. It s about the milestone. The fact that something didn t exist and now it does. Something people want. Are happy to pay for. And happy to be part of. @Pretty Prompt keeps surprising me week after week.
And it all started here on PH . If I could talk to my 2023 self, I d say: "Just keep pushing". Doesn t matter if you don t come from a CS degree, or didn t go to an Ivy League.
What matters is your ability to adapt, and move fast. This is proof. And I m super proud. I took my wife out for dinner. If I was motivated before Wait for what we ll do next with Charlie, my co-founder! Here s to the next Pretty milestone. And building things people want.
You can now use @Pretty Prompt on @Lovable, @v0 by Vercel, @Base44, @bolt.new, @Typing Mind, @Grok, Max AI, NinjaTools, OpenRouter, @Manus, @Merlin 2.0, @Monica, Z AI, @Greta , ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity.
Let me know if you've got any other integration requests!
Before I give you context, I have to say this one really feels like magic! The Lovable integration with Pretty Prompt is now open to everyone After a lot of testing. A lot of feedback, you can use Pretty Prompt right inside Lovable
Best part? You keep doing exactly what you did before.
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This is the story of how we stayed alive, and replaced our pre-seed with actual sales.
Two months ago, we ran a lifetime deal on AppSumo. The outcome? - 5,000+ new users - Over 100 5-star reviews - A full year of runway Lifetime deals feel scary. How can you know what will happen to your startup when you don t even know what you ll have for breakfast tomorrow? But if the definition of a founder is staying alive, we did what we had to do to stay alive. And I m so fricking proud of what we ve built so far. No VCs. No Harvard. No pitch decks. Just us, a Chrome Extension, and our customers. People are loving Pretty Prompt. And saying things like: "The best tool I have purchased over the years". "Paid for itself in the first week." Wrote the full story here: https://prettypromptai.substack.... Here s to the next 12 months, fully backed by our customers
I've built my product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market. That shift requires real architectural changes, instrumentation, metering, billing logic, and UI changes, not just pricing tweaks. It s something I m starting to seriously think about for my own product.
In particular, AI usage has real COGs (every prompt costs money), and I m seeing more platforms experimenting with usage-based models, or hybrids like SaaS base + usage + overage.
For those of you building AI or compute-intensive tools: