# TinyPilot: Month 38

DevFeed: [TinyPilot: Month 38](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tinypilot-month-38-52915.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2023/09/>)

Author: Michael Lynch

Published: 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Mtlynch](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mtlynch-io.md>)

Topics: [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-development.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>)

Tags: [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [software-developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-developer.md>), [subscriptions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/subscriptions.md>)

## AI overview

A software developer and TinyPilot founder reviews a month of company and professional progress. He discusses manufacturing coordination, moving out of the local office, the failed effort to sell recurring licenses, and realizing that TinyPilot had become too configurable.

## Source excerpt

New here? Hi, I'm Michael. I'm a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my business and my professional life overall. Highlights I failed to sell recurring TinyPilot license subscriptions. I realized I made TinyPilot way too configurable. I thought I'd been investing poorly into TinyPilot's development, but writing this retrospective made me realize I'm mostly on track. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I'd like to accomplish. Here's how I did against those goals: