Finally got the opportunity to make money off my project!
I've been working hard to build and grow a social media site I created from scratch for people living abroad.
I was able to grow to 200 verified email users in 10 days after launching which I was very shocked about. I am continuously improving the site day by day in the hopes to make this a successful project after many failed ones.
Yesterday, someone reached out to me saying that they interested in advertising in my site! I can't even start to process that I am close to start monetising my project...
This really gives me the motivation to continue investing my evenings and free time, which I really needed.
Hope you are also able to keep pushing :)
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I like the project! Nice work. I think there's definitely room for improving the design when viewing on desktop. It would be more readable with a narrower gutter. Some unsolicited feedback for you :)
Thanks and agreed! I simply started with mobile first and kind of trailed a bit on the desktop design.
Optimize the UI for desktop and larger screens. Adding a max-width with margin-auto css would suffice too.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree and it's on my todo list.
Did you considered optimising for larger screens? It looks well, a little weird. Project is cool though.
Thanks for the feedback. Will be adding max widths to the posts soon as it does look a bit odd :)
Awesome! Glad you finally get to reap the benefits of your labor of love. Have fun re-investing your new found income to make Distant Club bigger and better!
Thanks a lot. That's very encouraging!
Keep up the great work and dedication.
Thanks, will do!
Hi Distant Club Owner. If you don't mind would like to give you some free customer analysis report. From this customer analysis, you could understand what you potential customer are doing online and change your marketing strategy accordingly mainly on reddit posts, and blogging.
Here is the customer analysis : DISTANT CLUB CUSTOMER ANALYSIS
From the customer analysis "moving to a new country" are one of the most frequent subject your potential customer are searching online ( google traffic 1.3K and on average around 103 up vote and 37 comments on reddit on this subject ).
If you adjust your blog posts and reddit using these analysis, your posts will be closer to getting your potential leads.
Going deep on the subject here are top things that your customer are interested about the subject :
relocating family overseas
settling into expat life
adjusting to a new culture
If you blog posts and reddit posts include these as the title, there is very high chance people will click on it and pay attention to it.
Hopefully you will look into the full analysis as it will help you gain more leads.
You can also do the analysis your self using decentool.com
Thank you so much for the insights! That is extremely timely, as I was planning to boost my organic reach starting a blog page. I'll definite have the tool in my back-pocket :)
Nice job, I appreciate the simplicity of it. How did you get people to start using it?
Thank you so much! By sharing on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and Discord. It was surprisingly smooth to get people on board (compared to my previous projects).
Love the project!
Thanks Victor! :) May I ask what you are currently working on?
Sure!, Right now I'm working on a website builder from scratch, not ready to make it public, and the main reason I'm building it is to automate my process for creating websites, hopefully I'll be able to share it in a near future 🙆♀️
That's awesome! It's good that you were benefiting two-fold :)
Wish you the best and look forward to the end product!
Same thing for me with 700[dot]tools
Users start asking about promoted . And i just started to planning and add that feature , as we try to ship other features too
That's awesome! Same here, I am working on a feature to enable ad scheduling so I won't have to manually coordinate the process myself.