Jane Gardner

it starts clean. admin, editor, viewer. three roles, clear boundaries, everyone knows what they can do.

then the product grows. a customer needs access to one thing but not another. a team member needs editor rights in one context and read-only in another. someone asks for a role that's basically admin but without the billing tab. and suddenly you have eleven roles, three of them named some variation of 'editor-but-not-really,' and nobody is confident the permissions are actually right anymore.

AI is incredibly good, I d even say almost perfect.

And for many people, that uniformity of perfect templates is starting to feel annoying.

We sold $300k in 60 days. Fully bootstrapped.

This is the story of how we stayed alive, and replaced our pre-seed with actual sales.

Two months ago, we ran a lifetime deal on AppSumo.
The outcome?
- 5,000+ new users
- Over 100 5-star reviews
- A full year of runway
Lifetime deals feel scary.
How can you know what will happen to your startup when you don t even know what you ll have for breakfast tomorrow?
But if the definition of a founder is staying alive,
we did what we had to do to stay alive.
And I m so fricking proud of what we ve built so far.
No VCs.
No Harvard.
No pitch decks.
Just us, a Chrome Extension, and our customers.
People are loving Pretty Prompt.
And saying things like:
"The best tool I have purchased over the years".
"Paid for itself in the first week."
Wrote the full story here: https://prettypromptai.substack....
Here s to the next 12 months, fully backed by our customers