Hitting 7.94% Weekly Growth 📈 - Startup Learnings

Wow. Pretty Prompt just hit 7.94% week-over-week growth, doubling our usual of 3–4% per week.

Good news: we pulled off something really hard.

Bad news: now we have to beat it 😅.

Why this matters:

Consistently growing 7–10% weekly is one of the most powerful things you can do in tech.
The math:

• Say you start with $1,000 MRR

• Grow 7% weekly

• You’ll hit $400k+ ARR by year one, $13M ARR by year two 🤯

The challenge? Sustaining it.

If you haven’t already, go read Do Things That Don’t Scale by Paul Graham.
Aim for 5–10% weekly growth, and do whatever it takes to keep it alive.

That’s why I’m sharing this graph: no polish, no vanity metrics.
Just how we track weekly growth in a simple spreadsheet.

If it’s useful, I can open-source the template. Drop a note, and I’ll share the link.

A few extra thoughts from the trenches:

1️⃣ A hockey stick looks more like a staircase when you zoom in. Don't be discouraged by the "big guys".

2️⃣ North Star is Customer love. Right after that: MRR. Cash is king. (Customer love drives revenue).

3️⃣ Short-term campaigns drive insane growth: Two months ago, we launched a limited AppSumo campaign.
In 60 days, we sold more than in the previous seven months combined. Happy to share a full breakdown.

4️⃣ When you're a startup, don't try to act like a big company. Hold on to the advantages you've got by being small: Speed, Personal touch, Quality.

5️⃣ Consistency > Perfection. No post is perfect (At least not mine). No feature is perfect. But consistency makes it closer to being perfect over time. (Even though there's no such thing as a perfect post of product).

To everyone out there, you can do it! Keep hustling, keep shipping, keep building 🚀

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