$700 in revenue 3 weeks after launch - My Story
27th of August 2026. That's when I launched the idea of PressDrop.io.
My initial launch was on a bunch of .lol sites. Still remember those?
As you can see in the graph, I got my first sales on the FIRST DAY! As a matter of fact, my second visitor became my first customer https://x.com/isjackback/status/2093202733603963006 so crazy!!
Then came silence (see graph). One week of miserable silence.
I tried everything:
- Posted on X
- Launched on PH and other platforms
- Posted on Reddit
Nothing worked. Until.
I got another SALE, and then another, and they kept coming in.
I think this tweet was a turning point https://x.com/isjackback/status/2096932995076657467.
I started SHOWING what PressDrop can do. Showing does more than telling.
Along the way I kept raising prices, I started out really cheap with negative margins on the product. I did it just to see if anyone would even pay anything for my product.
Turns out, they will!
I'm still running early bird discounted prices, currently at $99. In my opinion the retail of PressDrop is somewhere around or north of $199, but the market will be the judge of that!
What is PressDrop?
PressDrop takes your startup to the news. No PR skills needed, just paste your URL, get a press release, pay and we distribute it to 500+ news outlets, including high authority sites with 80+ DR. PressDrop exists, so that you can tell the internet about your startup.
Nice job!
thanks roel!
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Congratulations. Those first sales are really important.
$700 and multiple sales make the pricing test real. What changed in the buyers who converted after you started showing the product, and did they tolerate the higher price?
The pricing thread running through this is more interesting than the seven hundred. Starting at negative margins tells you people will click when the risk is near zero, which is not the same as willingness to pay. What actually proved something is that sales kept coming while you raised prices. The number I would watch from here is whether conversion holds through each increase. If it does not move, you are still under the real price and the increases are free money. When it finally drops you have found the edge, and that is far more useful to know than the revenue total.