Small wins, September edition. Nothing is too small

Once a month. Not the big milestone threads. The small thing that made your week.

Mine: the forum move finished and I did not have to answer a single "where did my post go" message. Tom is unbearable about it.

Sold a brush pack to an illustrator whose work I have had on my wall for six years. I did not say anything. I refunded the shipping. That is all.

A barber shop two states over signed up without me calling them. First customer I have never met, never phoned, never cut the hair of.

Bakery number 30. Then number 31 the same afternoon, because they are cousins.

A non-profit told me my deadline reminders got them a grant they would have missed. $40,000 for a food bank. My software costs them $19.

That's a bigger win than most of the revenue threads on here.

Hit 50 paying customers. I know it is small. I made a cake.

A client renewed for a year without negotiating. In localisation that is a miracle.

The ferry company whose timetable I scrape finally emailed me. Not a lawyer. They want to send me the data directly.

Somebody got a job through Greenroles and wrote to say thank you. First time a candidate has ever written.

We placed our 100th assistant. I started this from my kitchen in Recife with a phone and a notebook.

A fishing charter captain, aged 71, completed a booking on his own phone without calling me. I have waited two years for this.

Episode 60. Still going. Sponsors: one. It is my cousin's bakery.

First sale to a buyer outside Nigeria. She is in Birmingham. She found us through her aunt.

Review number 20 on the app store. Average 4.8. The one-star became a four.

I said no to a freelance contract so I could finish the product. I have never said no to money before. Terrifying. Good.

The first no is the hardest. The second one you will almost enjoy.

A hospice used my thank-you letters and one of the donors wrote back to the hospice by hand. They photographed it for me.

Not a founder yet. But I told my manager I am going part-time in January to build. Said it out loud. Small win.

That is not small, Lindiwe. That is the one everything else comes after.