FirstDistro – I lost a $5k/mo customer overnight
I had a sweet deal $5k/mo customer. Their usage had been dropping for weeks, but I was busy building features to notice. Got the cancellation email on a Tuesday morning. That's a $60k/year in revenue I could have saved with a 10-minute phone call, if I'd known they were struggling. So I built https://firstdistro.com . It watches your customers' health (usage, engagement, activity) and alerts you when someone's at risk. One script tag. Health score in minutes. Alerts to Slack, email or Attio crm. Happy to answer questions about churn prediction, customer health scoring, or…
FirstDistro – I lost a $5k/mo customer overnight launched on December 4, 2025 with 5 votes, #2,550 of 11,628 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Catch retention risk, prepare for renewals, and surface expansion opportunities before they're missed.
Ranked by revenue at risk, so retention, renewals, and expansion get the right next call. Health score dropped and champion engagement is weakening. $108K ARR is at risk. Follow this 3 -step recovery playbook. Same agent in Slack. Mention @FirstDistro. Get who, why, and what to do. One customer account. Health in the CRM. Risk in Slack. ARR from Stripe. FirstDistro shows who needs you this week, then helps you act and show what you kept. Quiet accounts leave without a ticket. Spot the fade before renewal. Green scores can hide empty chairs. Visibility is not a finished outcome. Show the ARR you kept. Give finance a receipt, not another chart. One contact is a single point of failure.…from firstdistro.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
I had a sweet deal $5k/mo customer. Their usage had been dropping for weeks, but I was busy building features to notice. Got the cancellation email on a Tuesday morning. That's a $60k/year in revenue I could have saved with a 10-minute phone call, if I'd known they were struggling. So I built…
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