I'm building a tool site (month 10 update)

Another month, another update for my tool site terrific.tools.

Things are starting to get a bit more exciting now. First the numbers, though.

The site is now at 31k session for the last 30 days and has thereby grown by 5k monthly sessions since the last month.

I won't reach my goal of 50k monthly sessions by the end of the year but at least it continues to grow.

But now on the exciting bit: I was accepted into Mediavine (kind of!). I made a few posts on Reddit, asking about ad networks tailored for tool sites.

The CEO of Mediavine eventually reached out and put me in touch with his team.

That said, I won't be onboarded onto Mediavine for now but one of their other ad networks, which is called PubNation (any experience with PubNation is greatly appreciated).

As the tool site continues to grow, so will hopefully my access to better ad products.

I also hope that enabling ads will allow me to make more money on the desktop app since purchasing the license will also grant users an ad-free experience on the main website.

Moreover, I also started releasing some improvements to the desktop app. I will go full-time on our other SaaS and the tool site by the end of the year, so hopefully can get those out more frequently.

Lastly, I finally added Google authentication to the tool site, which allowed me to double my signups in a month. Not sure if all of those are legit but at least I now have a growing email list I can tap into eventually.