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Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
@lunchbag
๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป Bootstrapped founder @lunchmoney_app ๐Ÿ’ญ Writings & thoughts at lunchbag.ca
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Mar 31
    Your SOC2 compliance is fake, your deploy platform leaks private user data, and your HTTP library has malware in it. Happy Monday.
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Mar 1, 2021
    Just a girl ๐Ÿ’ƒ, her monstera ๐Ÿชด, a beer ๐Ÿบ, & 1000 paying users on her lil app ๐ŸŽ‰
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    May 4, 2021
    I hit a major milestone with @lunchmoney_appโ€“ $100k ARR! It's especially exciting as I get to dive into the data I've been collecting to generate cool charts & insights like ๐Ÿ‘‡
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Sep 1, 2020
    Lunch Money is 1 year old! ๐Ÿฅณ 12 months ago, I launched on Show HN. Today, we are profitable with 700 paying users (and growing!)! Thank you everyoneโ€“ I am definitely feeling the love and support ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ™ Oh, and this is only the beginning. ๐Ÿš€
    Lunch Money | Delightfully simple personal finance & budgeting
    From lunchmoney.app
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Jun 1, 2020
    The latest Lunch Money milestone is $40k ARR! ๐Ÿคธโ€โ™€๏ธ Reflecting on this, I've written a post on the optimizations I've made as a company of one to juggle engineering, product, marketing and customer support on a daily basis.
    Optimizations as a company of one
    From lunchbag.ca
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Apr 15, 2021
    Sometimes I have a bad day (or 5), and then I get a message like thisโ€“ "I really wanted to express my gratitude and admiration for this incredible piece of software, I can't believe this was pulled off by a single person." Thank you. I have to say that this life is not easy.
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Oct 8, 2020
    WOW! Lunch Money (lunchmoney.app) won @jamstackconf's Web App of the Year award! ๐Ÿ˜ netlify.com/blog/2020/10/0โ€ฆ
    Lunch Money | Delightfully simple personal finance & budgeting
    From lunchmoney.app
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Nov 17, 2023
    This was hard to do but dang, I'm so tired ๐Ÿ˜ญ We are up as much as 7x daily signups compared to last quarter, and traffic to the site is consistently 50% higher than usual. Lunch Money is going through a growth spurt. Putting on my infra-engineering hat for the next couple of
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    Lunch Money
    @lunchmoney_app
    Nov 17, 2023
    We are temporarily pausing sign-ups while we work on scaling our infrastructure to handle the recent increased demand! In the meantime, sign up for our waitlist to be the first in line when we re-open (estimated early December). Thank you everyone for your continued support! ๐Ÿฅฐ
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Nov 5, 2023
    It was nothing short of a wild last few days for this solopreneur of a personal finance management app. The biggest player in the game is shutting down. Working on a Mint migration tool to make it easy for folks to switch over to @lunchmoney_app!
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Feb 28, 2022
    It pains me to admit this publicly, but it's been 5ยฝ months since the last Lunch Money release, and that was just a bug fix. Getting back into it after a long (unplanned) hiatus is hard. So, I am setting attainable goals: new release by Friday, no matter how big or small. ๐Ÿฅฒ
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Apr 6, 2021
    I've been feeling frustrated at the current "boy's club" climate of tech/entrepreneurs in Taipei. I'm trying to start a female-focused group and I get this. I just want to hang out with other cool, ambitious, badass women here. Anyone know of any?! ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Sep 30, 2022
    POV: a $10B+ company invites you, a bootstrapped solo founder, to their platinum-sponsored fintech week where they're featuring your lil app for their launch in a whole new market (germany) & you show up because you happen to be spending 5 weeks in berlin at the time ๐Ÿ˜Š
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Mar 8, 2021
    me: starting to feel guilty for sharing all my accomplishments last week also me: remembering i've been apologizing my entire career as a woman in tech and we're not doing that anymore ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ‘
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    Jen ๐ŸŽˆ
    @lunchbag
    Mar 3, 2020
    ๐ŸŽ‰ 6 months of Lunch Money in numbers: ๐Ÿ’ณ 351,247 transactions generated ๐Ÿ“ 33,968 user-created rules ๐Ÿฆ 3,924 assets tracked ๐Ÿท๏ธ 846 tags created ๐Ÿ’ฑ 41 currencies ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป 1 founder ๐Ÿ‘‰ lunchmoney.app ๐Ÿ’ช #IndieHackers
    Lunch Money | Delightfully simple personal finance & budgeting
    From lunchmoney.app