👋 Hey there!
This is the first open update for InvoiceRecover. I'll be posting these updates every 2 weeks with my progress building and selling this SaaS product.
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Most of these updates will have short intros followed by a product, marketing, and business update.
Today I thought we’d start with a quick recap.
InvoiceRecover started in February of 2021. I posted the tweet below and planned to share my journey going from 0-1 with a new SaaS product. I made good steady progress in February only to come to a screeching halt in March 😵
https://twitter.com/LeylandJacob/status/1357484893404422144?s=20
In the end of March I posted a vague tweet about InvoiceRecover. "[Some really exciting things have happened, but it means I'll have to put this on hold indefinitely. Hopefully some day I'll re-open this thread.](https://twitter.com/LeylandJacob/status/1374458151701934095?s=20](https://twitter.com/LeylandJacob/status/1374458151701934095?s=20)"
Well, I sold two different products, Booklaunch and Betterlance, to an Australian invoicing company called Invoice2go. Yay, acquisition! Here's the press release.
I spent the next 7 months working full-time with Invoice2go to integrate Booklaunch and Betterlance in to their platform. It coincided with a major company-wide relaunch that successfully positioned them to be acquired by Bill.com for $825M 😯. Yay, more acquisitions!
Needless to say, the lawyers at Invoice2go preferred I not be working on a side project directly related to…invoicing. Something, something, conflicts of interest, blah, blah, NDAs, yada yada yada, intellectual property. Anyway, I had to put it on hold while working with Invoice2go.
Now we're all caught up.
InvoiceRecover has sat stagnant for almost 8 months. And now I'm picking it back up 🎉
But this time I've updated my goals: