# Derek Sandoval, Founder at Loopsheet (solo) — read of MRRBoost, June 20 2026 > 6 years as a SaaS dev at other people's startups, 18 months building my own. Currently at $2.3k MRR on a B2B tool for freelance designers. Sunday nap-time reader. My daughter is 6. --- ## How I got here Someone in the Indie Hackers Slack forwarded a tweet with the phrase "get paid as you hit MRR milestones." I've been reinvesting everything back into the product and basically taking zero salary, so that framing hit a real nerve. Clicked through expecting something like a revenue-based financing product or a founder grant program. Bookmarked it to read properly on Sunday. ## What I clicked first The hero. Specifically: "Earn guaranteed monthly income when you hit your MRR milestones." That word "guaranteed" is pulling a lot of weight. Guaranteed by whom? From what fund? I scrolled fast trying to find the answer and landed on the pricing cards. $1k MRR earns you $200/month. Okay, so 20% of your own MRR paid back to you. I read it twice because I assumed I was misunderstanding it. ## Where I paused The "8% of your monthly payout covers fund management" line. So: I earn $1k MRR, I receive $200, and then I pay you back $16 of that $200. For what exactly? The sentence says "fund management" but there's no fund described anywhere above it. Who is in this fund? Where does the $200 come from in the first place? This is the core question the page never answers and I kept waiting for it. ## What I distrusted Midway through the page, the framing shifts completely. There's a section with scores and Fermi estimates and a disclosure box that says: "Honest disclosure: we don't have live customers on this idea yet." That sentence reframed everything I had just read. The "500+ founders building real products," the pricing tiers, the community of bootstrappers -- none of that exists yet. The top half of the page is written in present tense for a product that is not live. That's a significant trust problem. I felt a little tricked, even though the disclosure is genuinely there if you scroll. The "$-63,700 Year-1 take-home (Fermi)" line also confused me for a solid minute. Is that what I'd take home as a founder using the program? That would be alarming. I eventually figured out it's the projected economics for whoever BUILDS the MRRBoost product. But that means this page isn't for me as a SaaS founder at all -- it's for someone who wants to launch MRRBoost as their own business. I came here as the end user and I'm being handed a business plan. ## What would convince me If this is actually a live program: one founder, named, with a screenshot of their Stripe dashboard and a one-paragraph story. Not a testimonial card. An actual human saying "I was at $1,200 MRR in January, got my first $200 payout in February, used it to pay for my Webflow subscription." That's it. That's everything. The mechanism still needs explaining but at least I'd know someone had been through it. If this is an idea marketplace (which I now believe it is): I need to understand that in the first 200 words, not after scrolling past a full pricing section for a product that isn't real. ## What I'd ask in an email reply 1. Where does the payout money actually come from? Is this a fund, a revenue share pool, sponsor money, something else? The "it's not a loan, it's not equity" framing tells me what it isn't but I still don't know what it is. 2. The "1 in 11 meaningful-success odds" line -- what counts as meaningful success here, and is that for the person building MRRBoost or the founder using it? 3. If I pay $99 to "adopt the build," what does the working code starter actually do? Is it backend logic for running a payout program, or is it a landing page? ## Verdict: on-the-fence The page has a real idea at its core and the honest-scoring section is more interesting than anything I've seen on a product page in a while. But the top half sold me on a product and the bottom half revealed it doesn't exist, and that whiplash cost them the trust they were building. If the structure were flipped -- lead with what this actually is, then show the vision -- I'd probably have read the whole dossier page. --- *Memo by skeptic persona, generated 2026-06-20. Studio breaks own self-grading loop.*