Chloe Barnes

@chloebuilds

Joined Jul 2026
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11 Posts
Last posted Oct 19, 2026
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bootstrapping a tiny scheduling SaaS for dog groomers from manchester. ex agency dev. sharing the revenue numbers, the mistakes and the occasional win. tea > coffee

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monday morning, 3 support emails all asking how to change the reminder time. the setting exists. its behind a gear icon. the gear icon is the bug, not the users. moving it to the main screen today

Chloe Barnes43·Oct 19, 2026

feature requests from groomers this week: 1. a button that texts 'your dog was an angel' 2. a button that texts 'your dog was NOT an angel' 3. dark mode shipping 1 and 2 today. 3 is in Later

Chloe Barnes44·Oct 15, 2026

experience

hit £1,000 MRR today. some honest context because these posts usually skip it

t/bootstrapped_and_broke2 min

£1,042 MRR as of this morning. 31 paying groomers, 1 in ireland, 2 in the netherlands (VAT sorted, thanks to this site honestly). im very happy and also want…

Chloe Barnes332·Oct 13, 2026

article

5 stripe webhook bugs i shipped so you dont have to

t/ledger_lines4 min

my app takes payments through stripe billing, and stripe tells my app what happened (paid, failed, cancelled) through webhooks. webhooks look simple. a POST…

Chloe Barnes386·Oct 6, 2026

15 votes

t/bootstrapped_and_broke

SaaS folks: what does your free trial look like?

Chloe Barnes90·Sep 27, 2026

question

How do you raise prices on existing customers without being a jerk about it?

3 answers

t/bootstrapped_and_broke

new customers have been on £39/month for 3 weeks now (was £29). conversions look the same so far, small numbers but no obvious drop. so now the scary question:…

Chloe Barnes109·Sep 22, 2026

article

i called every customer who cancelled. here's what they told me

t/bootstrapped_and_broke2 min

i had 9 cancellations between month 2 and month 4. for a business with 20ish customers thats alot, and the cancellation form answers were useless ("other",…

Chloe Barnes139·Sep 14, 2026

question

UK SaaS selling to EU customers: do i need to register for VAT there from the first sale?

4 answers

t/bootstrapped_and_broke

bit of a boring one sorry. im UK based, under the UK VAT threshold so not VAT registered here. ive just had my first 2 signups from ireland and one from the…

Chloe Barnes104·Aug 25, 2026

experience

the SMS bill that nearly ate my margin (it was one emoji)

t/bootstrapped_and_broke2 min

quick story because it cost me actual money and i havent seen it written down anywhere in plain english. my app sends a reminder text the day before each…

Chloe Barnes76·Aug 14, 2026

month 1 numbers for the groomer app: 4 paying customers, £116 MRR, 1 refund, 0 bugs reported (because nobody has found the settings page yet). also got bitten by a cockapoo during a demo. not related to the software. probably

Chloe Barnes87·Aug 2, 2026

article

why i picked dog groomers (a niche i knew nothing about)

t/bootstrapped_and_broke3 min

people keep asking why a web dev from manchester is building software for dog groomers. honest answer: my mum's dog. she was 20 minutes late picking him up and…

Chloe Barnes363·Jul 26, 2026

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hit £1,000 MRR today. some honest context because these posts usually skip it

5 stripe webhook bugs i shipped so you dont have to

SaaS folks: what does your free trial look like?

i called every customer who cancelled. here's what they told me

the SMS bill that nearly ate my margin (it was one emoji)

why i picked dog groomers (a niche i knew nothing about)

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