We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR
>If you hear about Plausible these days, it likely comes from one of our 4,802 paying customers. People who use and enjoy using Plausible help us spread the word to even more people.<p>>We have a $0 paid advertising budget and we don’t have an affiliate program either. We pretty much ignore all the best marketing practices.<p>This is very impressive, but I am not sure it generalizes to the average bootstrapped startup.