Solo dev from Japan here. Not Tokyo, not really in any startup scene, just building from a more rural area. I launched a translation app in Oct 2025 and it recently passed $10k MRR. took around 8 months. proof: https://profile.stripe.com/nani/Ae1hNCkN No ads, no paid referral thing, no big launch. mostly just posting progress on X and people sharing it. Just writing down stuff I noticed I spent way too much time before launch wondering, “does anyone actually want this?” Most of my ...