App founders: what’s your MRR?

Curious to see where everyone is at!

And if you’re comfortable sharing, tell us: 📱 App category

👥 Number of paying users

💵 Monthly price

🚀 How long it took to reach your current MRR

Let’s learn from each other.

I've watched a lot of solo devs and first-time founders start projects. Almost none of them fail because of bad code or bad ideas. They fail because they're building in total isolation, with zero external pressure to finish.

Here's the pattern I keep seeing: you get excited, you build for 2-3 weeks in a vacuum, momentum dies the second something gets hard, and the project quietly ends up in a folder called "old-projects." No one asked you where it went, so no one noticed it stalled.

The fix isn't more discipline. It's structure:

1. Public accountability — tell people what you're building before it's done, not after.

2. A weekly checkpoint — even a single screenshot posted somewhere counts. It forces you to have something to show every week.

3. Feedback before launch, not after — most builders show their work for the first time on launch day. By then it's too late to fix positioning or UX issues.

4. A room of people at your exact stage — not a general "startup" community, but people actually mid-build on apps and games right now.

That's the whole idea behind what I'm building with Buildr Guild — a small, paid community specifically for people building apps and games, structured around weekly build-in-public check-ins and real feedback. If any of the above sounds familiar, it's probably worth fixing before your next project quietly dies in a folder too.