Thread by @levelsio

It took 7 years and a global pandemic but Nomad List is finally growing exponentially and passed >$500k/y

Almost exactly like @paulg's startup curve

Nice to arrive in ✨ The Promised Land ✨ after years of🩸blood 💦 sweat and 😭 tears

nomadlist.com/open

It's eery how close this matches the Wiggles of False Hope, literally you try everything and nothing really makes it grow just up and down up and down for years @paulg nomadlist.com/open

I think it was difficult to get it going because the market wasn't ready for it yet. There weren't enough people working remotely and in turn not enough % of those people going remote. It's much different now after COVID with remote work now being mainstream

Relatedly: your revenue growing is usually more about the market existing/growing than your own effort

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1131782951341924353?s=20

Nomad List has been my most fun project because it's like my🐥 baby. But also my most struggling one. Not crazy growth like Remote OK, just endless no growth for years and thousands of hours put into it while nothing really worked. But now it finally does!

Interestingly

👩‍💻 Remote OK started growing exponentially in 2020-03, just when COVID started and ppl went remote

🎒 About a year after, Nomad List started growing exponentialy in 2021-04

🔮 This was my prediction: % of ppl working remote will go nomad (as I did in 2013)