DiscountHub just passed 10,000 pageviews in a month
Today I received an email from Cloudflare saying that DiscountHub passed 10,000 pageviews in a single month for the first time.
DiscountHub is a free platform for finding discounts, promo codes, store promotions and online deals. It also includes an AI shopping assistant that searches our own database for relevant offers.
The project is still early, and pageviews do not automatically mean revenue or loyal users. But after weeks of building, publishing updates and testing different promotion channels, it is encouraging to see real growth.
The next goal is to turn more of this traffic into returning users and understand which acquisition channels bring people who genuinely use the product.
Project: https://discounthub.uz/
What metric made you feel that your project was finally starting to gain traction?
Congrats on the milestone! 🚀
Getting the first 10k pageviews is a huge validation that people are finding the product.
The interesting next stage is usually not “how do we get more traffic?” but “how do we make sure the traffic we already earned understands the value fast enough to take action?”
A lot of SaaS/products lose conversions in those first few seconds because the message doesn't connect the visitor’s problem with the solution.
Excited to see how DiscountHub grows from here.
Thank you
Really like the idea. The biggest challenge with discount platforms is keeping offers fresh and trustworthy. How are you handling expired codes or region-specific deals? A “worked for me” vote and a last-verified timestamp could become a strong trust signal.
I wrote a three-layer filtering algorithm, and I can say with confidence that there are currently no expired codes or offers on DiscountHub.
Congrats on crossing 10k pageviews — that's a great signal that people are discovering DiscountHub.
The next interesting challenge is exactly what you mentioned: turning visitors into returning users.
A lot of platforms get the first click right but lose people because the homepage doesn't immediately answer:
Why should I come back tomorrow?
What makes this better than searching discounts myself?
What habit or value keeps me returning?
For a product like this, the messaging around the AI shopping assistant and personalized deal discovery could become the difference between a one-time search and a repeat user behavior.
Would be interesting to see how you experiment with that next.
10,000 pageviews is a useful milestone, but I would now define one activation event for each visitor: saving a deal, opening a merchant offer, or completing an AI search that returns a usable result. Then compare seven-day return rate and activation rate by acquisition source, while filtering obvious crawler traffic from the Cloudflare total. That will reveal whether growth came from a repeatable channel or one unusually successful post. The metric that usually feels like real traction to me is a cohort returning without another promotional push.
I’d be happy to, but I’ve written about my project in so many places that it’s quite difficult to check right now.
That makes sense. I would not try to reconstruct perfect historical attribution. Start now with a consistent UTM convention, store first-touch referrer with the user or session, and annotate each promotion date. Keep existing traffic as direct/unknown instead of guessing. After 30 days you’ll have a clean baseline for activation and return rate by source.
nice jump. curious what channel drove most of that traffic, paid or organic? trying to figure out which acquisition channels actually convert to usage is the hard part imo
I haven't spent a single cent on advertising yet.
no ad spend and still hit 10k, that's solid. seo grind or just posting in the right places? ngl organic is way harder to pull off consistently but it holds up better long term imo
I think so too. I am currently actively looking for a partner who can take charge of promotion.
makes sense, ngl promotion is the hardest part to delegate well since it needs someone who actually gets the product. have you thought about doing some of it yourself first just to figure out what messaging resonates before handing it off?
Honestly, the best way to attract the most users is to shoot a good video, post it on TikTok and Instagram, and run targeted ads. Since I can shoot and edit videos myself, I was able to use this strategy.
That makes sense. Video definitely tends to perform better than static posts for most consumer products. How’s the split working out between organic TikTok reach and paid ads? Is one bringing in more results than the other?
I haven't run paid ads yet, but I'm sure that if I create an interesting video and use targeted advertising, the number of users will increase manifold.
proly true, though worth testing small before going all in, sometimes the video that performs best isn't the one you'd expect. any idea what your target cac would need to look like for it to make sense long term?
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Congrats for reaching this target! Is an huge amount of visit
Thank you
Congratulations
10K pageviews from pure organic distribution is a meaningful channel signal. The harder question is what those visitors were actually doing when they arrived.
For a discount product, the returning-user trigger is almost never 'I want to browse deals' — it's 'I'm about to buy something and I want to check for a code first.' That's point-in-time purchase intent, which means retention needs to meet users at the decision moment, not at the browsing one. Being visible in commercial-intent search results (e.g. 'brand + promo code' queries) tends to compound better than trying to build a browsing habit.
Your 537 outbound clicks from the other post is the more interesting number — that's a 5.37% outbound rate on the 10K pageviews, which tells you the offer matching is working. The jump I'd focus on now is what percentage of those clicks completed a purchase. Revenue per outbound click tells you whether you have a tracking gap or a conversion gap. Those are completely different problems with completely different fixes.
I can't check the number of purchases just yet, but I'm working on it.
Congrats on reaching 10,000 pageviews! Which acquisition channel brought you the most valuable visitors, and what helped you get your first users?
Congrats! 🎉 10k pageviews is definitely a nice milestone, especially for an early product.
I really like that you’re focusing on returning users rather than treating traffic alone as traction. That’s something I’m thinking about a lot with my own SaaS too.
Congrats on hitting 10k monthly pageviews! Was most of the growth organic, or did one particular channel make the biggest difference?
Congrats.Hit 10k pageviews in a month is a massive milestone—that psychological shift from building in a vacuum to seeing real baseline traffic changes everything. The transition from raw traffic to retention and finding which acquisition channels actually bring active, sticky users is definitely the toughest next phase, but keeping the focus locked on turning those views into returning users is spot on. Great work, MasterBek!
Nice milestone. I like that you’re focusing on retention next. Traffic is easy to celebrate, but repeat usage is where the real product feedback comes from.
537 clicks in 20 days is a solid early validation signal. I’d be curious to see how conversion rates differ between deals, promo codes, and partner offers. That could reveal which type drives not just clicks, but actual purchases and revenue. Great progress!
Congrats man! 10k in a month is huge 👏
Quick question - what traffic source worked best for you?
I'm building free AI tools for founders and struggling to get Tier-1 traffic.
Was it SEO, Reddit, or something else?
Nice progress! Consistent click-throughs are a great sign that users are finding value. Keep testing and optimizing to improve conversions over time.
Solid numbers! 537 clicks in 20 days is a great sign people actually want the deals you're surfacing.
Damn nice going!
Would genuinely love to hear what you plan to do to retain and convert these users?
That's awesome! Congrats!
Congratulations on reaching 10,000 monthly pageviews! That's a great milestone. Wishing you continued growth and success as you focus on increasing user retention and conversions.
Thank you
Congrats!
Pageviews were never the metric for an affiliate business, and you already found the real one in your other post: 537 outbound clicks. The number that tells you whether this works is revenue per outbound click, because at $0 per month you either have a tracking gap with your networks or partners whose offers do not convert, and those are completely different problems with different fixes. Pull your network reporting into the same view as those clicks and you will know which one you have inside a week.
Thank you
Congratulations!
I like that you’re separating page views from real traction.
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