From Minimum Wage to $ ARR : My Startup roller coaster in Toronto

In August 2023, after graduating, I moved back to India to build my startup but my plan failed. My startup got some traction, but my life felt like I was missing something.

I came back to Toronto for one more fresh start. I had no backup, no off-field or field job. No family in Canada and only $2k in my bank account. $2k in Toronto means I can live off with basic necessities for around 1.5 months. If I fail, I would be on streets. I still decided to take the risk.

I gave it all I got this time.

I found a job with minimum wage to survive. As well, I found 2 clients with inbounds (they came from my old posts). I worked without resting a bit. I had full-time minimum wage job and 2 clients. All at the same time. I kept going.

Soon I felt a bit confident and started building EasyUI, EasyUI Premium and EasyMVP.

EasyUI started getting traction and soon I launched EasyUI Premium and EasyMVP.

My work with both the clients ended in 2 months and I started focusing on growing EasyUI.

I decided to build Easy UI in pubic. I kept sharing all the updates on Twitter and LinkedIn. I wrote blogs on Dev community and Medium.

I got some inbounds. People reached out to me to learn, they joined EasyUI's Discord community. I made friends too. I helped people by guiding them as there was no one to guide me when I needed the most.

I guess my goodwill to help people and work finally paid off. Soon after launching EasyUI, I found a new project work for building MVP for a startup. I also got shout-outs from Instagram community, LinkedIn connections. This increased my traction for EasyUI Premium as well.

In the next month, I ended up with $8k in revenue (which was the highest I made in my whole life in a month), I also saw the lowest. When I came here in February, I only made $1k.

I kept going. I figured that staying down to earth and focusing on learning more and ship faster is the key. Also sharing the work and updates on social media is really important too. Building in public was the key.

I kept going but soon my numbers dropped. I didn't end up with 0 as I had my backup but from June to August I saw 0% growth in revenue. But in September it all changed. I double-downed on shipping and my revenue again skyrocketed. It hiked to freaking 179% in October.

In November it dropped to -58% and now in December I am expecting it to grow by 131% ($6500 ).

This says a lot about internet business and startups. Ups & downs are constant. Focusing on work and sharing is the most important part.

I learned that helping people is also very important. It helps in building a great environment and community altogether. Alongside I made good friends too.

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