Big milestone - $1,000 revenue this week.
Finally hit one of my milestones - $1,000 revenue per week.
The money is a combination of sales from my side projects:
https://www.growyourclicks.com/ (50%)
https://cooee.network/ (20%)
https://mousecrafted.com/ (10%)
https://desket.co/ (10%)
https://workforthem.com/ (10%)
https://www.fiveideasaday.com/ ( 0% )
Screenshot - https://imgur.com/a/tsS5XK3
I use https://www.getcontrol.co/ to track all my Payment Gateways.
Feel free to as any questions :)
First, congrats! Several questions:
Can you give us a rough timeline of when you launched each of these projects? That would give the rest of us an idea of how long it takes these things to take off.
What is your thought process when deciding on a new project to launch?
How much time do you spend on Indie Hacking each week?
What is your end goal? Run a whole group of internet companies, or wait for the one successful product that you can scale into a unicorn? Something else?
Which project surprised you? Why?
Thanks for the helpful information!
1.Can you give us a rough timeline of when you launched each of these projects? That would give the rest of us an idea of how long it takes these things to take off.
https://www.growyourclicks.com/ (1.5 years)
https://cooee.network/ (1 week)
https://mousecrafted.com/ (2 months)
https://desket.co/ (2 yrs)
https://workforthem.com/ (1.5 years)
2.What is your thought process when deciding on a new project to launch?
Is it something I would use or need.
3.How much time do you spend on Indie Hacking each week?
I browse in the morning for 15-20 mins and then usually agaiin after lunch for the same time.
4.What is your end goal? Run a whole group of internet companies, or wait for the one successful product that you can scale into a unicorn? Something else?
I haven't really thought that far ahead but it would be great if one of them took off like a rocket. My goal is to make enough money to start, buy, and invest in other internet businesses, similar to http://tiny.website/
5.Which project surprised you? Why?
GrowYourClicks, I didn't realise the HUGE demand for online learning.
Great answers. Thank you for taking the time to answer!
No problem Eric :)
Followed the whole thread , great questions, great answers! Thanks a lot.
Thank you Gilbert :)
Thanks for the extra info and congrats!
How's your affiliate program going on Grow Your Clicks?
Not great but I didn't expect to get huge return on it tbh.
Thanks for letting me know. Teachable & Gumroad both have quite simple programs but require more work to scale.
Sure thing.
https://www.growyourclicks.com/ (50%)
Grow your click is an online course platform that teaches you skills in growth hacking, design, tech, and personal development.
https://cooee.network/ (20%)
Cooee Network is a network of over 1,491,217 followers spread across Twitter & Instagram all in the creative niche. It's basically an advertising platform aimed at businesses in the creative niche.
https://mousecrafted.com/ (10%)
MouseCrafted is a marketplace for MouseCrafted design resources from independent creatives around the world. Similar to Creative Market
https://desket.co/ (10%)
Shopify store where I sell mugs aimed at the creative audiences
https://workforthem.com/ (10%)
Jobs Board for startup jobs
https://www.fiveideasaday.com/ ( 0% )
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David, this is a ton of things to keep track of. Congratulations on the progression.
I'm curious, how is the fiveideas still at 0%? Didn't you start a Ideas as a Service around it?
Thanks, Biran.
It's 0% for this week, I get a few sales but nothing major, people seem to prefer the free option - go figure :/
Amazing achievement, hopefully someday when i start a few project I can get to that amount.
It's 100% doable Ben :)
Great stuff David!
You have 6 separate businesses, could you share some info on how you manage 6 separate inboxes/emails plus 6x social media accounts? (I assume these are all separate for you)
I have 2 businesses and using separate browsers for each, however there are not enough browsers when dealing with more than that heh
Hey Satch! Have you checked out inbox tools like Front or Help Scout for managing multiple inboxes?
Hey!
Thanks for use recommendations. For now, I dont feel like I need it, since I simply use two separate inboxes on different hosts, so it's not such a big deal.
I'm sure it would be more interesting for more inboxes though.
Thing is, and that's what I wanted to learn from my question - I feel like there is a lot of 'overhead' tasks when running separate indie businesses.
@daviddel - do you feel this or how do you deal with all the 'overhead' tasks?
Thank you,
I use social tools such as https://www.kuku.io/ for social automation.
Emails not too bad, I don't get a lot of emails which is always good :)
Congrats David, I have been following some of our past products for a while now and have its definitely eye opening to see your progress.
Thank you Ronald :)
I saw your profile and list of products several weeks ago, and intended to contact you at some point for insight on starting a job board.
Is a job board project worth while and something to pursue? I started a Dallas, TX centric job board a couple years ago, had some usage for a while, then slowly stopped keeping it up. Never monetized it, but I've toyed with the idea of getting it back up and running and really giving it a go.
What would you advise?
Hey Caleb,
What kind of traffic were you getting on the jobs board?
What kind of jobs were you posting?
I fund niche specific jobs do better.
Check out https://seeker.company/
I really like the look of Seeker as a light-weight, no code way to start a job board. I have a job board at https://www.chefwork.com.au/ but the monthly cost is much higher than Seeker.
Here's the website: http://www.dallasjobs.io/
It's Dallas-area specific jobs for design/dev/pm/etc in technology related companies. Dallas has a fairly large tech/startup industry.
At it's best I was getting around 50-70 daily visitors in the Dallas area. That was my core metric for site visitors. While visitors in other cities and states are welcome, it's easier to track local visitors as a relevant metric.
The advantage Dallas-based companies gain by posting to DallasJobs.io versus other job boards (even the really big ones) is that they are promoting directly to their target audience, instead of scatter shot to an international audience.
So, my next-step plans are:
Boost local SEO for the site and job posts
Introduce paid job posts
Contact local companies to post (seeking talent to hire)
Work on local talent outreach (people seeking jobs)
thanks for all the info. very cool.
Thank you :)
How old is your Twitter course? Do you have anything that could help grow my YouTube?
Edit: Oh yeah, and congrats!
It's 6 months old but still relevant.
I don't have a YouTube specific course but my Instagram course would do the job. Grow your Instagram following and then drive your new followers to your YouTube channel via Story swipe up :)
I don't use Instagram and am considering deleting fb entirely. If time is what life is made of, then they're slowly killing hundreds of millions.
The same could be said of YouYube, but at least there's a genuinely educational branch of it.
Frame this and put it on the wall.
I can understand from a personal viewpoint but Instagram is a gold mine for my businesses.
What kinds of photos do you share? How does that work? I'm genuinely curious.
I don't use instagram myself but I do occasionally see something come through fb and it never seems to be related to software, education, business, etc... all I see is food and travel.
What is "story swipe up"?
This is awesome!
I hope mousecrafted takes off.
Thanks Casey, so do I. I pumped a lot of money into it :)
Hola David, images are loading quiet slow información mobile even at 4G, might want to check that out.
Hey Facundo, thanks for the heads up. I'm looking into CDN and also image optimizer to try sort this issue out :)
That's impressive. Congrats! You should write a blog post about it, I am sure a lot of people would love to hear!
Cheers Anthony,
Was thinking about that in the shower today, the only problem is finding the time to put pen to paper :)
Will you focus on one project to maximize your return? And how do you judge which one deserve your focus?
Hey Benny, yes I do adjust my % of time spent on each project weekly.
Right now the focus is on getting more sellers onto https://mousecrafted.com/
I guess the focus shifts based on weekly projections. If I feel a certain project is declining in it's performance then I shift my focus.
I'd also love to know the following:
How long is each project already live?
How did you market each network?
Is this milestone going to repeat itself next week or could it drop by $500?
How did you get $100 for workforthem?
How long is each project already live?
https://www.growyourclicks.com/ (1.5 years)
https://cooee.network/ (1 week)
https://mousecrafted.com/ (2 months)
https://desket.co/ (2 yrs)
https://workforthem.com/ (1.5 years)
How did you market each network?
https://cooee.network
Is this milestone going to repeat itself next week or could it drop by The goal is to beat it or match it at the very least :)
How did you get $100 for workforthem?
2 job posts - $49 each :)
Thanks for being so open about things! You deserve your success so enjoy it :-) Are you indie hacking full time or are you doing all of this in your spare time? Also, would you mind sharing your personal investment (money-wise) of each project? I'm sure some projects cost a bit to market?
Just doing my tax returns now but I will get back to all your questions later :)
Great hearing it's growing, I've seen you around a couple of times. The one thing I like the most is how you are spreading out.
However, do you have any concerns that you will be thinning out your attention on all of them? They do seem partially self-run and automated with a low touch maintenance. I still wonder if you have thought about going hard at a couple of them instead of constantly launching new ones without hiring people to actually work on it.
Appreciate it :)
Yes, that is a concern of mine, I am spreading myself very thin these days BUT as long as I can still give each project the time it needs I don't see myself having to hire anyone yet.
Can I ask how you reach customers for growyourclicks.com? I guess it must be somewhat of a challenge to "compete" against Udemy, etc. How did you get first customers that chose you over other well-known platforms? And how did you technically reach out to them?
The demand for online learning is HUGE and I guess my advantage is I provide a course that not many people are teaching.
How do you handle the job site in regard to submitting?
I'm developing one and recently have opted for something like a fake submit that's actually just a form so that I can manually do the data input while I validate the idea, then if its worth it, add user accounts/user submits and edits etc?
Damn, that's a hell of a milestone indeed!
I have ignored GetControl until now, but after checking it, and its startup friendly free tier, I think I am hooked. Thanks for that recommendation!
I wonder, are you seeing a stable upward trend, or was the $1K made thanks to some sale? Have you been trending around that number previously?
Also, how much time a week you spend on those projects?
What you use for Desket for production? Do you use a 3rd party to print and deliver the cups, or do you do this yourself? I really like the designs!
btw - did the Reddit bring a lot of traffic today? I have seen you got quite viral there today.
Cheers Bart,
GetControl is a solid tool and for what I use (features) it's also free.
Great question :) – generally things are following an upward trend but the launch of http://cooee.network/ last week had helped.
I generally try to give each project the same % of time but that may fluctuate day to day.
Desket is built in Shopify and I use a third party to print & ship my mugs (Teelaunch). The designs are all my own - putting the design degree to good use.
Reddit did bring decent traffic but also a lot of negative comments (Suprise, suprise)
David do you see cooeee helping out SongBox ?
I need to connect with musicians.
Are you looking for musicians to sign up?
Yes. Musicians tending towards a serious music career is my dream customer (as opposed to hobby musicians just looking for some likes from their family and friends)
What were your process like when trying to see if these ideas were viable? Did you try manually selling them to customers before making the site? or did you just create the sites thinking it would sell?
Hey Sunwoo,
My process is to test an MVP as quickly as possible.
So, look for a platform that can quicken the process considerably, if I can't find one then I hire someone who can build it.
Thanks for answering! What does an MVP entail for you? An actual product that you can sell at scale? or talking to customers and trying to sell manually?
Desket is built with Shopify (1 month to launch)
GrowYourClicks is built with Teachable (2 month to launch)
Cooee Network is built with Carrd (1 week to launch)
FiveIdeasADay is built with Podia (1 month to launch)
MouseCrafted is built with Wordpress/ PHP (3 months to launch)
WorkForThem is built with PHP (3 months to launch)
Congrats. And thanks for the detailed list. I’m going to checkout “grow your clicks” and I am definitely signing up for “get control”.
Cheers.
Cheers Mick.
Control is great and it's free.
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