Hit first paid user after pivoting the whole project based on 1 user call

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Hey guys, just wanted to share a small milestone that I hit after ~2 months of building an extension for custom keyboard shortcuts in Google Workspace.

I launched to total silence for the first few weeks. Eventually, a customer emailed me directly and asked to speak through a couple of additional things they wanted me to build.

We chatted on a video call, and that conversation led me to scrap my original intended use case and pivot to an adjacent (but better) set of functionality. Have just landed my first paying user, and feels SO great.

Big learning: Launch early. I learned more from that one customer interaction than I ever could have building by myself.

Link to the new and improved version: https://snapkeys.app

Posted Dec 4, 2025, 10:48 PM UTC

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