"my cofounder quit last month and my MRR actually went up and I feel terrible about what that says about our dynamic" from Reddit r/saas, ranked #1. By Tough_Commercial_103, 12 score, 18 comments. Data from Daily Trends.
my cofounder quit last month and my MRR actually went up and I feel terrible about what that says about our dynamic
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- 3/28/2026, 9:44:22 PM
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I need to talk about this because I don't think I can say it to anyone in my real life without sounding like an asshole my cofounder left in february, not dramatically, he just said he'd lost the fire and wanted to go back to a normal job, we'd been building together for 14 months and we were at about $3,400 MRR which isn't nothing but also isn't enough for two people, so I get it here's the part I can't stop thinking about in the 5 weeks since he left my MRR has gone from $3,400 to $5,100 same product, market and pricing, I changed nothing about the product itself, what changed was how the business operated day to day and I'm only now realizing how much of our time was spent on what I'd call collaborative friction we had weekly "strategy sessions" that were 2 hours of debating what to prioritize and then neither of us fully committing to whatever we decided because we'd each kind of wanted the other thing, we had different opinions on tooling so we'd run parallel experiments inst...