Every morning, one of the first things I do when I sit down in front of my PC is to check out the dashboard on my HR SaaS app to see what the overnight activity is. A couple of days ago, I noticed this in the top right of the dashboard:

I won’t lie, I actually had tears of emotion well up when I looked at that. It says “1000 subscribed companies”. That means ONE THOUSAND companies out there that have actually paid money to subscribe to my app.

That is something that I find surreal and have to pinch myself often. This is an app that was formulated entirely out of my head. I have written 99.9% of all the lines of code in it. Designed up almost every screen and field and prompt in the system. I find it hard to grasp that something that literally was just ideas floating around in my head is now in use by thousands of people around the world to help them to manage their teams.

Later on that day, Sarah from our team also posted this in our Slack channel:

And that is another thing that also astounds me. That we are now a growing team, with people working in the team who are also passionate and excited about getting our app to the world.

What started as ‘me’, is now bigger than just me.

I am eternally grateful to my family for their constant, untiring support. I am also grateful to my co-founder for sharing the load with me and for her great marketing skills that have got us to this level. I am grateful for my team and colleagues and friends who have been avid supporters and have stuck with me through tough times.

Onwards and upwards.