Day 2: 240 visitors, 0 "subscribers" (wait, actually 1 is me), and a confession 🤦♂️
Hey IH 👋
Quick update on Faceless.Directory.
First, a confession 🙈
You might've noticed my launch post yesterday had this:
🚀 Launched X days ago
📧 X newsletter subscribers
📊 X pageviews
Yeah... I was so excited to ship that I forgot to fill in the placeholders. Classic "move fast and break things" energy, except I broke my own post. Lesson learned: proofread before you ship, dummy.
The REAL numbers (Day 2)
Since we're being honest now:
MetricNumberNotesVisitors240Mostly from IH and TwitterPage views300+People are clicking around!Newsletter subs1It's my own email 😅Revenue$0Affiliate links live, no conversions yetTools65+Still curating more
What I learned in 24 hours
IH traffic is real: 200+ people checked it out just from one post. That's way better than shouting into the void.
Typos don't kill you: Despite the "X" error, the post still hit #5 on the Build Board. Thanks for being forgiving!
"1 subscriber" sounds sad: Until you realize every directory starts at 0 (or 1, if you count yourself).
The plan for the weekend
Fix mobile responsiveness on the comparison tables.
Start adding the next batch of 20 tools.
Actually promote it on Twitter properly.
Question for IH:
For those running directories — I have traffic but 0 organic subscribers. Did you gated content (e.g., "Sign up to see the full list") to get subs early on, or is that a bad UX move?
Cheers,
Gavin
