Ministry of Testing
👤 Rosie Sherry (Tester since 2001 and a serial community-builder (Girl Geek Dinners). She knew the niche's pain and had done it before.)🌐 siterosie.land𝕏LinkedIn
A software tester saw her trade had no real community. She built one free, grew it for years, then charged.
Will it work? · our read
Patience compounds. The moat is 18 years of accumulated trust in a dull niche, not any feature. Slow, unglamorous, and nearly impossible to copy — but tied to Rosie and to live events.
01How the money moves
Testers join the free community for content and peers
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Trust and audience compound over years
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They pay for conferences, Pro membership, courses, jobs
02The numbers
$1.2MStateda year (2019, stated)
2019-06
the sentence on the page
Up Case Studies Ideas DB Products DB Join 6 Likes 3 Comments Paying It Forward with Kindness to Build a $1.2MM Community with Rosie Sherry of Ministry of Testing published June 14, 2019 iTunes Google…
All founder-stated by Rosie Sherry on the Indie Hackers podcast, 2019. Indie Hackers
About $1.2M a year as of 2019, founder-stated on the Indie Hackers podcast; fully bootstrapped, no outside funding.
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You have the verdict. Members get the work behind it.
- The CENTS scorecard — where it's strong, where it's soft
- The founder's key move, and the counter-move
- How it could die — the evidence, and how sure we are
- The case against our own call
- A 🚀 launchpad prompt — the case, as a plan for your business
We rate our own confidence — and argue against ourselves. Nobody else in this category does.
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Indie Hackers podcast #97 — Rosie Sherry ($1.2M/yr, 2019)Ministry of Testing — About usHeavybit — Quality Culture with Rosie SherrySoftware Social — A conversation with Rosie Sherry
Revenue ($1.2M/yr) is founder-stated by Rosie Sherry on the Indie Hackers podcast (2019) — first-party but unaudited and now dated; current figures are unknown. 'Biggest community' and member counts are widely repeated but not independently verified. A large share of revenue is in-person conferences, which sit at the edge of our web-product scope; the online community is the core asset. Rosie has since stepped back from day-to-day operations. [our read] on the moat and failure mode. We never score you.