# The story: $0 to $9.5k MRR in two months Published 2026-10-17 by Panche Isajeski · Tallinn Source: https://bootstrappedmakers.com/story --- Two products, built as well as I could build them. What decided whether anyone paid was never the product. It was distribution, and nobody had told me. **$26M**Kromatika peak valuation, Nov 2021 **$2M**In grants. No funding round, 1,000 users **4 mo**At $0 before the first customer paid **$9.5k**MRR for AgentaOS, two months after launch, after four months at $0 ## How it went Ten years, two companies, one lesson 2016–21 ### Outsourcing Stable: clients, delivery, the next sprint. I knew how the week would look before it started. 2021 ### Kromatika Started as Aristokrates No round, no deck. $2M in grants, 1,000 users, a peak valuation around $26M. **I ran its community: 3k people on Telegram and Discord.** This isn’t my first room. The customers funded it. Which sounds noble, and mostly meant that if nobody paid this month, there was no month. 2021 ### Chainlink Fall Hackathon Award winner, then a Q&A with Chainlink Kromatika was a trading platform. It won an award at the Chainlink hackathon that autumn, and they invited me on to talk about how we built it. [ ![](https://bootstrappedmakers.com/img/proof/chainlink-qa.jpg) Chainlink · Q&A ### Kromatika on Chainlink Q&A How we built it, and what it took. Watch on YouTube → ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTEla5ylAWM) 2022 ### Named in an SEC filing The token was named in a complaint connected to the Wahi insider-trading case, and classified as an unregistered security. I wasn’t a party to it. A strange thing to read about your own work on a Tuesday morning. It taught me more about regulators than any course would have. 2023 ### Exited It worked. I left. 2025 ### Blockia Labs Estonia, co-founders from Sweden A consulting company. Inside it we started Blockia Pay, a cross-border money-transfer product, and built it for a few months. Those were the first days of what is AgentaOS today. Apr 2026 ### The split Blockia Pay became its own product and I continued alone. Four months to find fit, and it meant changing the whole model, not adding a feature. Aug 2026 ### AgentaOS launched Selling by card and subscription from any country, no company required. Still a solo-founder story, with a few people on compliance. What’s left of the road is the code, and the mistakes. ## Four months at $0 Then thirty days $0 ### Four months Live, priced, finished. Not $200. Zero. I genuinely considered that I’d misread the whole thing. $9.5k ### Two months later MRR, from zero. I started posting free playbooks on LinkedIn. About the problem, not my product. 01 ### They build A genuinely good product. The part they know how to do. 02 ### They set a price Put up a link. Make the page look right. 03 ### Then they wait Nobody comes. Because nobody has heard of it. A good product does not find its customers. Somebody has to carry it to them. ## Why I run it Distribution is a habit, and habits need witnesses Every day ### The Telegram group Post the numbers Who you talked to, who you asked to pay, what they said. Real answers from makers at your stage. Tue ### A live workshop Once a month Watch 10+ AI agents get me customers, then set yours up. — ### A room of makers at your stage Makers at your stage No course. No certificate. No promise you’ll be rich. ## $0 to $1k MRRin 30 days. One goal. One number. $0 to $1k if you sell in euros — same road, same 30 days. ## Key facts Everything in one place Bootstrapped Makers is a community that takes bootstrapped SaaS makers from a live product nobody pays for to their first $1k MRR. NameBootstrapped Makers What it isAn online community for bootstrapped SaaS makers Who it’s forMakers with a live product and nobody paying yet: agency owners, freelancers, indie makers The goal$0 to $1k MRR in 30 days FeaturedAgentaOS, my product: [Indie Hackers, 6 October 2026: “Starting from scratch and hitting $9.5k MRR in two months”](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/tech/starting-from-scratch-and-hitting-9-5k-mrr-in-two-months-j5pMaED5FEbKw8qmeyj9) FounderPanche Isajeski · [X](https://x.com/PIsajeski) · [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/pan-i) Opened7 October 2026 BasedTallinn, Estonia. Global, in English What you get with a guideA monthly live workshop, the members’ chat, 4 partner discounts, every playbook. One playbook is free. Price$19/mo · $190 for 12 months (save $38). Founding members keep $9/mo. TermsMonth to month. Cancel in one click PartnersOutrank, Bazzly, LaunchRepo, AgentaOS Founding members100+ makers on the founding list before launch Compared withIndie Hackers, WIP, MicroConf Connect, Dynamite Circle, Hampton · [see how](https://bootstrappedmakers.com/resources) Website[bootstrappedmakers.com](https://bootstrappedmakers.com) ## What I’m not So you can stop reading here — ### Not an investor I don’t want equity. — ### Not a marketing guru I was at $0 for four months this year. — ### Not a headline exit I’ve never sold a company for a number you’d recognise. If that’s the credential you’re looking for, this isn’t the community. ## What I do have 2× ### Companies built without outside money Kromatika and AgentaOS. Both from zero. 100s ### Founders’ real numbers A payments platform shows me what actually gets paid, and what quietly doesn’t. 1 ### Strong opinion about pricing Happy to be argued out of it on a Tuesday. If you’re building alone and asking whether it’s worth it: it was. ![Panche Isajeski](https://bootstrappedmakers.com/img/panche.jpg) **Panche Isajeski** Built and exited [Kromatika](https://kromatika.finance) · Founder, [Blockia Labs](https://blockialabs.com) and [AgentaOS](https://agentaos.ai) · Tallinn [Get my AI team, free](https://bootstrappedmakers.com/#hwl)[See inside the community](https://bootstrappedmakers.com/inside)