Crossed $10k MRR — what should I automate first?

Finally hit $10k MRR as a solo founder this week 🎉 Currently spending way too much time on: - Manual onboarding calls (every customer wants one) - Monitoring Slack/Reddit/Twitter for mentions and relevant conversations - Manually sending "check in" emails at day 7, 14, 30 - Answering the same support questions over and over What did you automate first when you hit this stage? I have probably 5-6 hours a week to invest in automation right now.

Why MoMo flagged this

Poster explicitly lists Reddit monitoring as a manual time sink they want to automate. Clear use case fit. They have budget and are in a build-vs-buy mindset. This is a warm lead.

AI Draft Reply

Congrats on $10k! Solo founder hitting that milestone is no joke.

My prioritization at that stage: automate the things that happen every day before the things that happen every week.

**What I'd do in your order:**

1. **Support answers** — build a simple knowledge base or use AI to draft first responses. This is daily friction and the ROI is immediate.
2. **Lifecycle emails** — Loops, Customer.io, or even a simple sequence in your email tool. Set it once, run forever. This frees up mental overhead more than time.
3. **Reddit/community monitoring** — this one surprised me. Once I stopped manually checking subreddits and had tooling surface relevant threads, I got *better* at it in less time. The problem with manual monitoring is you either do it too much or forget entirely.
4. **Onboarding calls** — last, because some of that manual touch is still worth it at $10k. Self-serve video walkthroughs + async Loom can replace most of it.

For the Reddit monitoring specifically — happy to share what I use if useful.

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