hey, happy you like it, to be honest we had no real secret, it takes a ton of time and effort to earn developer trust

i got my first customer after 1 month, and then just worked like hell to make him happy even though it was a very large company paying me $99/mo at the time, they're still a customer too

since then, i just locked in on every customer until they were thrilled, and once we hit 50, word of mouth started to kick in, now we're at 300+ and get a referral every other day which is awesome

i think our community appreciates effort, and when someone goes the extra mile to make sure your problems are solved, you tend to remember that. it doesn't scale super well, but you'd be surprised how far it'll take you