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Celebrating a Milestone - 5K ARR for Uneed 🥳

Hey Indie Hackers 👋

It's been a while since I posted here, so I decided to celebrate this milestone with you 🤗.

It's been just over three years since I started Uneed.best, a website dedicated to curating the best tools on the internet. I've worked tirelessly to build this platform and I am thrilled to announce that Uneed has just hit 5K in annual recurring revenue 🥳.

How did I reach these numbers?

Basically, I didn't stop for three years AND I've got lucky 😅.

Since launching on Product Hunt last October, Uneed has seen tremendous growth. In January alone, the site received 52K visits and 230K page views.

Our analytics

To monetize the platform, I started offering a monthly subscription service where users can feature their tools on the homepage. With only 5 of 25 seats remaining, it's clear to me now that people are finding value in this 🤗

In addition to the monthly subscription service, Uneed also offers a weekly newsletter with a sponsored spot available for purchase. With these revenue streams in place, I now have the ability to dedicate more time to building out the website and adding even more valuable features for users 🤩

I'm so grateful for the support and success of Uneed thus far, and I can't wait to see what the future holds. Thank you to all of our users for making this possible!!

on January 30, 2023
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    Congrats Thomas!
    Uneed brought some users for https://tolt.io
    I'm happy that we got listed :)

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      Oh yeah, glad to hear that 🥳🥳🥳

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    That's great, congratulations!
    Where do you get most of your traffic from? is it Product Hunt?

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      Google and twitter :) you can check our analytics here: https://app.splitbee.io/public/uneed.best

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    Huge win, congrats Thomas!

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      Thank you Nico 🤗

  4. 2

    Wow congrats.

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      Thank you 🤗

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    Congrats Thomas! Who is your target audience and how big is your newsletter currently?

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      Thank you 🤗

      1/3 come from twitter and are probably indie hackers / developers.
      The other part is complicated to analyze 😅 they come to Uneed thanks to some Tiktok videos, some blog posts...
      So I'd say they're definitely in the tech area, probably 24-35, founder/developer/indie hacker.

      I recently "cleaned" a lot of inactive subscribers, so today our newsletter has ~4.5K subscribers :)

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        I missed this response. That's really interesting. Congrats on your achievement so far!

        I co-run founderoo.co, if you're interested in sharing your founder story and featuring Uneed with our audience, I would love to learn more about your founder story and share it with our audience :)

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          I'd love to 😄! Can you send me a DM on Twitter? (@t_zahil)

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    wow congratulations, truly inspirational. Are you accepting only SaaS tools or also free tools?

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      Thank you so much 😊

      Both! I don't make any difference between free and paid tools

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        I think i already made submission for my website. Is it worth mentioning Kody Tools?

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          Yep, I can see it in the waiting line 😄!

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    https://happywheels.one

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      I recently "cleaned" a large number of inactive subscribers, so today our newsletter has approximately 4.5 thousand subscribers:)