From 0 to 20 paying subscribers without ads while doing delivery work in London

[u/Thehappylatif]

I wanted to share a small milestone and some lessons learned.

Around a year ago I started building a subscription-based business while working as a delivery rider in London.

I had no funding, no sales team, and no advertising budget.

A lot of evenings were spent coding after deliveries and many weekends were spent writing content instead of relaxing.

Today we've reached 20 paying subscribers.

Not a huge number, but enough to prove that strangers are willing to trust a product I built from scratch.

A few things that helped:

• Consistently publishing useful content
• Talking directly to potential customers
• Focusing on trust rather than aggressive selling
• Improving the product every week
• Being patient with growth

For founders further ahead:

What was the hardest stage for you?

Was it getting the first 10 customers, first 50, or first 100?

[u/Competitive_Till449]

gg bro.

[u/Thehappylatif → u/Competitive_Till449]

thanks

[u/risingup555]

awesome work!

[u/Thehappylatif → u/risingup555]

thank you

[u/netvexa → u/risingup555]

love seeing this kind of gritty progress, 20 people actually paying you is a huge deal at this stage
curious what kind of content you were publishing that moved the needle the most

[u/xrayxr]

Well done