Code The Web
Web development explained for normal people!
I made Code The Web to help people. You get a real buzz when some happy person emails you thanking you for helping them somehow. I'm also looking to monetize in the future, but my main goal is still helping more people.
Slowly rising...
I now get more users visiting per week than I got during the entire first month of Code The Web!
Code The Web became profitable!
I managed to pay off a whopping $8.73. Yup, my only expense was the domain name. I like to do things cheap.
I got my first payment!
It was a donation, through my Buy Me A Coffee page (https://buymeacoff.ee/CodeTheWeb)
I set up my Buy Me A Coffee page
Before then, I had no way of receiving money. Now it was at least possible to get paid, even if unlikely.
I got some love on Reddit!
I posted my HTML tutorials series (https://codetheweb.blog/learn/html) on Reddit, and got 1.2K upvotes and 12.4K post views! 🎉 - https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/7c7rd5/i_just_finished_writing_9_tutorials_on_html/
This was the moment when I realised that Code The Web was actually something that people like and would be interested in.
(although spending an entire Sunday on Google Analytics just before a really busy week probably wasn't the smartest idea 😜)
I started Code The Web!
I officially bought the domain https://codetheweb.blog and put a site up.