• 47 failed payments detected
• 31 successfully recovered (66% recovery rate)
• $2,114 in revenue recovered

RecoverKit automatically recovers 12-18% of failed payments through intelligent, human-sounding email sequences. For a $10k MRR SaaS, that's $1,000-1,500/month walking out the door.

Build Log

• Day 1: Discovered $355 in failed payments in founder's own Stripe account
• Day 3: Built webhook listener, started tracking failures
• Day 7: First recovery email sent — recovered $49
• Day 14: 31/47 payments recovered, $2,114 saved
• Day 30: Open sourced the tool
• Day 45: First external user — recovered $127 in week 1
• Day 60: 66% recovery rate confirmed

The tool is open-source (MIT License) and can be self-hosted on Cloudflare free tiers (<$10/month infra cost), or you can get the hosted version for $9 one-time.

Industry data says 10-15% of Stripe payments fail on the first attempt. Most of these customers would have paid if given a second chance. But without automated recovery, that second chance rarely happens.

The math is simple: If you're doing $10k MRR, you're losing $1,000-1,500/month. That's $12k-18k per year — silently disappearing.

RecoverKit was built to solve this problem for indie hackers and bootstrapped founders.

• Audit your failed payments (find the invisible leak)
• Set up webhook listening (real-time detection)
• Design your email sequence (4 templates included)
• Configure retry logic (timing is everything)
• Track your metrics (what to measure, what "good" looks like)

No email required. No upsell. Just value.