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I hit 50 daily visitors and now I can't sleep.

I’ve been building NoteOCR for myself for a while. For months, it was basically just me and 5-10 random visitors who hate retyping handwritten documents, coming to transcribe them every day.

Two weeks ago, I stopped adding features and actually looked at my SEO. I rebranded around a specific keyword in my niche, redesigned the landing page, and did some localization.

It actually worked. I hit 50 daily visitors today, and the adrenaline is a problem. I’m stuck in a loop of refreshing GA4 and Vercel analytics, staring at the Realtime map.I’ve realized that building the tool is only 20% of the job. I spent months on the code but 2 weeks of SEO and localization did more for my user count than any feature I ever added.

Question: Now that I've hit 50, do I keep grinding SEO, and what are other ways SEO can be boosted for search engines

Anyway, I’m too wired to sleep. Refreshing the dashboard again.

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on January 19, 2026
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