[Problem to Solve] The honest version of "how I got my first paying customers" is hard to find. What's online is mostly polished success stories or courses for sale. The parts that would actually help, the real numbers, the months nothing moved, the things that went wrong, usually stay private. [Unique Value] This is a collection of first-person accounts from people who did it themselves: built a small software product on their own and got it to its first paying customers. Each chapter is one founder, in their own words, with the numbers most write-ups leave out. No theory, no "10 steps to $10k MRR." [What You'll Gain] An honest look at what reaching first revenue actually takes, from the inside: what they built, what they charged, what worked, what didn't, and what they'd do differently. Not a formula to copy, but real accounts to learn from and measure yourself against.