MadeOnSol Month 3: $196 MRR, profitable, and the data is getting serious

MadeOnSol Month 3: $196 MRR, profitable, and the data is getting serious

Hey everyone, month 3 update on MadeOnSol — a Solana trading intelligence platform I'm building solo. We hit profitability this month.

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Revenue

$196 MRR from 4 Pro subscribers at $49/month each, all paying in USDC on Solana. No Stripe, no credit cards — wallet connect and pay. Total infrastructure costs are ~$144/month, so we're now cash flow positive.

Went from 0 → 1 → 2 → 4 paying users over the last 6 weeks. No sales calls, no outbound. They all found us organically through search engines and AI citations.

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Platform stats

The data pipeline has grown massively:

- 1.1 million+ buyer records indexed

- 161,000+ human wallets indexed

- 17,000+ Pump.fun deployers profiled and scored

- 1,000 KOL wallets tracked in real-time

- 22,000+ API calls (was 1,100 last month)

- 45 registered developers (was 21 last month)

We monitor every swap across 11 DEX programs on Solana in real-time using dual gRPC streams from validators in Frankfurt and New York. Detection latency is under 3 seconds.

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New features shipped this month

- Wallet Tracker — users track custom wallets (Free: 10, Pro: 50, Ultra: 100) with real-time alerts

- DEX Firehose — WebSocket stream of every swap across 11 DEXes with server-side filtering by token, wallet, DEX, minimum SOL, action type, and deployer tier

- Chrome extension in development — contextual KOL and deployer data overlaid on Pump.fun, Axiom, GMGN, Dexscreener

- Alpha Wallet Scoring — 47,000+ wallets scored by early-buyer performance on Pump.fun tokens

- Full security audit and code quality refactor

- Added LetsBonk and Bags.app as new DEX programs (9 → 11)

- Annual pricing option (2 months free)

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SEO & AI search

This is where it gets wild:

- Google indexed pages: 9 → 7,652 (94% of sitemap)

- Bing AI citations: 3,400+ across 19 pages

- ChatGPT is now sending us click-through traffic

- DuckDuckGo is our 2nd biggest referrer

- Domain Rating: 3.4 (50 backlinks, 37 referring domains)

- Google impressions: 9,660

The AI citation growth went vertical in mid-April. We didn't optimize for AI search at all — we just wrote detailed, honest content about every Solana tool and the AI engines decided we're a reliable source.

I genuinely believe AI search optimization (AIO?) is going to be a bigger deal than traditional SEO within the next year. If you're building content, make it structured, detailed, and genuinely useful — AI will find you.

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Traffic

- 1,420 unique visitors last 7 days (+190%)

- 3,180 page views

- Referrers: Bing 26%, DuckDuckGo 19%, X/Twitter 13%, Reddit 12%, BetaList 10%, Google 5%, ChatGPT 2%

- Countries: US 22%, Vietnam 8% (scrapers — we added Cloudflare firewall rules), Germany 5%, Belgium 4%

We had a scraper problem from Asian residential proxies that inflated our bounce rate to 91%. Built Cloudflare firewall rules to challenge traffic from Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, and Indonesia without a search engine referrer. Bounce rate is recovering.

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Infrastructure

Running everything on a single dedicated Hetzner server:

- Intel Xeon E-2176G (6 cores / 12 threads)

- 64GB ECC RAM

- 2x 960GB NVMe in RAID1

- 2x 1.92TB SATA SSD in RAID1

- About €100/month

Plus ~€30/month for gRPC validator nodes. Total: ~€132/month (~$144).

This server can handle 500-1,000 active API users before needing to scale. By the time we need a second server, revenue will more than cover it.

Ran a full security audit this month: found 2 critical issues (missing RLS on payment tables, SSRF in webhook delivery), both fixed same day. Plus dependency updates, React hook fixes, and code quality refactoring.

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What's working

1. Programmatic SEO at scale — 7,652 indexed pages means 7,652 chances for someone to find us on Google. Long-tail keywords that nobody else targets.

2. AI search is free distribution — 3,400 citations without trying. This compounds.

3. Free tier drives paid conversions — developers start with 200 calls/day, build something real, then upgrade to Pro.

4. USDC payments remove friction — crypto users don't want to enter credit card details. Wallet connect + pay in 10 seconds.

5. Data moat deepens every day — 1.1 million buyer records and 180 days of KOL history. A competitor starting today can't replicate this overnight.

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What's next

- Chrome extension launch — overlay KOL and deployer data on trading sites

- Alpha Wallet Scoring API endpoint — POST any wallet, get a score based on early-buyer performance

- Annual pricing to reduce churn

- Blog content targeting "solana grpc stream" and "solana dex api" keywords

- RPC provider marketplace submissions (QuickNode, Helius)

- Smart Money Dashboard — paid website subscription for non-developers (broader audience than API)

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Numbers summary

MRR: $196 (profitable)

Paying customers: 4

Registered developers: 45

API calls: 22,000+

Buyer records indexed: 1.1M+

Human wallets indexed: 161K+

Deployers profiled: 17K+

KOL wallets tracked: 1,000

Google indexed pages: 7,652

Bing AI citations: 3,400+

Domain rating: 3.4

Referring domains: 37

Infra cost: ~$144/month

Marketing spend: $0

Team size: 1

Happy to go deep on anything — the gRPC infrastructure, programmatic SEO strategy, USDC payment implementation, Cloudflare scraper defense, or building for the crypto niche.

madeonsol.com