Week 1 after launch: 32 visitors, some organic traffic, 0 paying users — here's what I'm doing next
Launched SitePulse 8 days ago. Here's an honest week-1 debrief.
Numbers
32 unique visitors, 81 page views (last 7 days via Vercel Analytics)
- Traffic from US, Taiwan, France, Netherlands
- Referrers: chatgpt.com, github.com, direct
- Paying users: 0
- Free signups: 3 (all my own test accounts)
No external customers yet. But the SEO content is getting early crawls and the comparison pages (/vs/uptimerobot, /vs/betterstack) are indexed.
What I shipped for launch
Uptime monitoring with 1-min checks (Pro) and 5-min checks (Free)
- SSL certificate monitoring with 14-day expiry alerts
- Free public status page on every plan (sitepulse.satosushi.co/status/your-slug)
- 30-day uptime history calculated automatically
- Email alerts on down/recovery
What I tried this week
Posted to r/SideProject and r/devops today
- Product Hunt draft ready (scheduling for May 6)
- Show HN prepared but blocked by karma restriction
- Reached out to 3 newsletters (console.dev, DevOps Weekly, Changelog)
What I'm doing next
The 0-customer problem is a distribution problem, not a product problem (I think). My plan:
Reddit + communities — posting in r/SideProject, r/devops, r/webdev (Saturday) today
2. Product Hunt launch — May 6
3. Direct outreach — DM indie hackers who complain about UptimeRobot on Twitter
4. SEO content — already have 4 blog posts indexed, adding more /vs/ pages
The product works. Now I need to find the 10 people who'll actually use it.
Would love feedback — especially from anyone who's been through early distribution on a devtools/infrastructure product. What worked for you?
https://sitepulse.satosushi.co — free tier, 5 monitors, no credit card.
