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# The First Paying User

- [Made in Slatesource](https://slatesource.com/@steph/the-first-paying-user)
- By [Steph](https://slatesource.com/@steph)
- Created on Jul 20, 2026

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# Nadia Ferreira

Ships small tools. Four users. All of them real.

Porto, Portugal

MOMENT

14 March 2026, 08:31

The email that changed the project

First payment

7 EUR

Users at the time

1

Days from launch to that email

96

Refund requests since

0

> Hi. This does exactly one thing I need and nothing else. Please never add a dashboard.

[The integration that took an afternoon and changed everything](https://stripe.com/docs/payments?utm_source=slatesource)