I got my first paying customer yesterday. A week ago I celebrated a fake one.

I built Incipite, a small tool that stamps your files on the Bitcoin blockchain so you can prove you had them first. Photos, scripts, songs, whatever you make. It’s been live since May and about 20 people had tried the free version. Zero paid. Last Friday my Discord pinged me “pay_per_use” on two new deposits. I was already writing this post in my head. Then I opened Stripe to look at the money. Nothing. My own notification was calling “has credits” a payment, and the credits were free ones I had given him myself. So I fixed the label and felt pretty dumb. Yesterday the real one came. Same guy actually. He had signed up a week before, used his 3 free certifications and the 3 extra I sent him, then subscribed at $6.99 a month. And stamped 6 more files the same day. What surprised me is that he’s the only one who came back. The 19 others stamped one or two files and left with credits unused. I spent months trying to find people, and the one who paid just had a lot of things to protect. It’s $6.99, I know. But this time I checked it in Stripe three times aha Did anyone else get a fake first customer before the real one?