Company Jul 14, 2026 4 min read
Current reached $5K in monthly revenue
Nine months after launch, two founders, no funding. What worked, what did not, and the exact channels that paid for it, from our own dashboard.
Tomas Reilly
Current crossed $5,000 in monthly recurring revenue last week. It took nine months, two people, and no outside money. We are writing this down partly because we said we would and partly because our own dashboard makes it easy to be honest about where the money came from.
The channels, ranked by revenue
- Search. A third of all paying customers first arrived from a search for an alternative to another tool. The comparison page we nearly deleted is the entry point for most of them.
- The newsletter. Small list, high intent. Two hundred people a send, and more customers than any launch post.
- Word of mouth. Direct visits that turn into trials within a day. We cannot see who told them, but we can see that they came already convinced.
- Hacker News. Enormous traffic, one customer per launch. Worth doing for the attention, not for the revenue.
What did not work
Paid ads. We spent $1,200 over two months and attributed $87 of revenue to it. The dashboard made the decision for us, which is exactly what it is for.
What is next
Funnels shipped in June and are already the second most used screen. Profiles are getting a timeline view. And the script is still 812 bytes.
Thank you to everyone who paid for something two people built. You can watch the number move on our public dashboard.
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- Aug 12, 2026 Keeping the script under one kilobyte A tracking script is a tax on every page you ship. Here is how ours stays at 812 bytes, what we left out, and why the size is a promise rather than a boast.
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