My first month with Local Waifu: 11 sales and a lot of disbelief

I still remember the first email from DodoPayments telling me someone had actually bought a license key.

My honest reaction was: what the f** just happened?* I genuinely didn't expect anyone to care. I smiled the entire day and was in a stupidly good mood.

Local Waifu has been live for less than a month. It's a privacy-focused, on-device AI companion for macOS and PC — everything runs locally, nothing leaves your machine.

The numbers so far:

• ~500 unique visitors

• 11 paid subscriptions

11 people in the first month, from a standing start. I'll take it.

Where the traffic came from, roughly in order:

1. AlternativeTo

2. Google

3. AI (assistants / search sending people my way)

AlternativeTo has been the biggest surprise — it's quietly outperforming everything else.

A small shoutout to DodoPayments too: it's the one part of the stack I haven't had to fight with. Setup was painless and it just handles the boring billing stuff for me.

Honestly, the best part isn't the revenue (yet) — it's the proof that strangers will pay for something you built simply because you thought it was cool. Didn't expect it. Really happy it's happening.

More updates as it grows.