Last week I got 5K new visitors in my site. Only 10 of them became customers X_X

Last week I released a new feature to Legendsverse called Build-A-Wave. It's very common for Marvel Legends collectors to dream of Marvel Legends series they would like to see released. I do that myself. A lot.

Build-A-Wave is a super simple online image generator that let's people add some images and drop some super hero names and it will generate an image for a Marvel Legends series.

Before actually shipping this new feature, I had wanted to build it since the beginning of October, but couldn't find the most simple way to develop it. I wanted it to be a very super simple, no log in, no DB, no backend, and by no means it should not take me more than a weekend. I would overcomplicate it thinking in people being able to drag the images, styling, and a lot of things that were not necessary. And this was inspired by @SeaCatWiz's Resume builder and @threehourcoffee's Fidget page. I wanted to make a simple app that could move people to LV.

Last week I was able to think of a way to make it super simple and coded it in a weekend. Shared it on Reddit and FB and everything exploded! I got 5K+ new visitors into Legendsverse.

ML FB groups asked people to stop sharing so many of these Build-A-Waves images.

It literally flooded the Marvel Legends community

Even the Marvel Legends team at Hasbro were playing with it.

I could not believe that. I hurried to add some CTAs to the Newsletter, to the tracking app (which is the main Legendsverse product), ML checklist, and price guide. And finally after a few hours I got two new customers on day 1. And on day 2 I got about six new customers, then two more at the next day.

The novelty has already worn off. And I'm getting about 300 visitors daily. 6 times more than the normal visitors count.

I've been tweaking the UI a little and trying to make people aware of the Legendsverse app. But nothing seems to move the needle.

I got five thousand new visitors. FIVE THOUSAND. In two days. Build-A-Waves were being shared EVERYWHERE, but at the end I got only 10 more users.

I'm trying to be fully transparent here.

When I saw the numbers rising on my plausible account I was so excited. But after none of them converted, I have to be honest: I started doubting if Legendsverse is really a product people want?

I'm convinced I'm giving people a lot of value, both with free tools like Build-A-Wave, the ML checklist and price guide, and in the main paid product (Marvel Legends tracking app). But people don't seem to think the same 😂

It has made $3K in a year. I think that's awesome. But not sure if it means the product is really validated and I probably need to market it more, or maybe the market is too small. I'm constantly struggling and stumbling into what steps to take.

Bootstrapping a business is so hard. 💀