Reported · from Damon Chen's public posts and interviews

Testimonial.to

Collects text and video testimonials from customers and embeds them on your site in minutes. Built solo by Damon Chen, who published the revenue the whole way up.

testimonial.to

$33K
reported MRR
+7.1%
last 30 days
$250 Dec $33K now+13233% over 25 months
Q4 '20
Q1 '21
Q2 '21
Q3 '21
Q4 '21
Q1 '22
Q2 '22
Q3 '22
Q4 '22

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The timeline

  1. Q4 2022$33K+15.4%
    👋

    $400K ARR and the end of the solo phase — first two hires.

    Reported
    📶

    24 months of growth in a row

    Reported

    The longest unbroken run of month-over-month growth so far.

    🏔️

    Highest month so far: $33K

    Reported

    0 paying customers.

  2. Q3 2022$29K+30.0%
    📈

    Crossed $25K MRR

    Reported

    Reported at $27K.

  3. Q2 2022$22K+29.6%

    $20K MRR. The second $10K took seven months; the first took eleven.

    Reported
  4. Q1 2022$17K+33.3%
  5. Q4 2021$13K+40.3%
    🎯

    $10K MRR, eleven months in. Eighty to ninety percent of early customers came from building in public on Twitter.

    Reported
    📈

    Crossed $10K MRR

    Reported

    Reported at $10K.

  6. Q3 2021$9.2K+69.8%

    $100K ARR nine months after launch, still solo.

    Reported
  7. Q2 2021$5.4K+440.0%
    📈

    Crossed $5K MRR

    Reported

    Reported at $5K.

  8. Q1 2021$1.0K+300.0%
    📰

    Quit Cisco at $1,000 MRR, and said so publicly the day it happened.

    Reported
    📈

    Crossed $1K MRR

    Reported

    Reported at $1K.

  9. Q4 2020$250
    💲

    Dropped lifetime deals and moved to a subscription. The cash was useful; the model was not.

    Reported
    🚀

    Launched on Product Hunt selling lifetime access at $199. Thirty deals and about $6,000 in the first two weeks.

    Reported
    🔌

    Connected revenue

    Reported

    $0 MRR, 30 paying customers — with 19 months of history rebuilt back to $0.

    🕳️

    Lowest month so far: $0

    Reported

    30 paying customers.

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