Divjoy
The React Codebase & UI Generator
July was a huge month for Divjoy and actually surpassed total revenue from the previous 4 months combined. Most of that was due to launching Stripe payments support and offering a lifetime deal. I talk about that a bit more in this launch recap.
Since this is non-recurring revenue I don't expect it to be nearly as high next month, but will be happy if it levels out above $3k. In many ways offering a lifetime deal is a bit like doing a Kickstarter. You get a bunch of revenue up front so you can fund future development.
I am planning on experimenting with recurring pricing soon though, as I'd love to have a much more predictable revenue stream.
I recently launched divjoy.com/showcase to show off all the awesome things people are building with Divjoy. Since adding it I've had a bunch of customers reach out to let me know what they've built and that's led to some great product feedback + more customers randomly sharing Divjoy on social.
Lesson: Promote your customers and they'll promote you.
By the way, I'm running a huge 40%-off deal for the IH community right now. Grab it at divjoy.com/?promo=indiehackers
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ah. really fucking cool!
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Thanks John 🙏
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we're building out our "testimonial" page that is very similar to the showcase piece:
but, something we're thinking about doing is making it more personal... so, instead of just showing websites, showing faces and names.
different angle/approach, but, i get why you're showing the actual website.
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Nice, I like that idea a lot! I was actually thinking of showing a bit about the creators behind the site or linking out to their Twitter, but decided to just ship and revisit that later. I think that has a lot of potential.
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I woke up this morning to Divjoy being featured on the Indie Hackers Twitter account and 2 new sales as a result. Thanks @csallen and team!
Happy to be a part of this community 👨👩👧👦
This was the best week for divjoy.com so far with $570 in sales. If I can keep this up I should be on track to hit my goal of $2k/m goal. It's no FU money.. but it is "oh cool, I can pay my rent" money.
The increase was mostly due to some pricing page changes I made (as discussed in https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-doubled-sales-with-one-tiny-change-0d3b733c32) and some extra sales from a 50% off deal I'm offering the Indiehackers community.
If you're starting a React.js project anytime within the next year you may want to grab the deal at https://divjoy.com/?promo=indiehackers
I’m super excited to announce that divjoy.com was one of the Startup School 2019 grant recipients. The $15k will enable me to focus on Divjoy full-time for the next 6 months and work on getting it to profitability. I’m at around $1k a month right now and my goal is to hit $5k by June.
Here’s the full list of recipients: https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-startup-school-2019-grant-recipients/
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Well done that great, I came across your product a while back and I think its a great idea. Good luck in the future.
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Congrats!
would you mind sharing your experience at the startup school? How much time have you invested, how hard was to get in, the value you got in return, etc.?-
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I think Startup School is worth doing for just about anyone working on a product. Very low-commitment. I spent no more than an hour a week watching the videos they sent out, and an hour in the group chat session. Group sessions varied in quality, but I got enough good feedback to make the whole thing worthwhile. Everyone that applies gets in so go apply! https://www.startupschool.org/register
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I started charging on divjoy.com 3 weeks ago and just passed $1000 in revenue. Here's a couple things that I've learned:
- People want a PayPal option! I started off with just Stripe and revenue went up 2x when I added PayPal. If you have an international audience it's worth adding.
- Chat widgets work. I get a lot of questions on my checkout page via the chat widget (using crisp) and often close a sale when I'm quick to respond. It's also been a great way to quickly learn what needs to be clarified on the page.
I set a goal to reach "ramen profitable" by the end of the year. I'm about halfway there and launching a big feature this coming week (React Bootstrap support). Hopefully, that gets me across the finish line. I'd love to hear any feedback or ideas you all have!
I rolled out payments on divjoy.com this weekend and got 4 paying users ($240 in revenue). I'm currently charging a one-time fee of $60 to export a React codebase and you get access for 1-year so you can keep coming back and grabbing new components as your product develops.
Still not totally sure about pricing. Might try increasing prices a bit once I roll out Stripe integration and support for Bootstrap and Material UI. Long-term I'd love to re-introduce a free tier. What do you think? My goal is to reach ramen profitable by the end of the year.
Just this morning the 10th product created with Divjoy went live (you can see them all here: http://divjoy.com/#showcase).
This is a huge milestone for me. My mission with Divjoy is to help developers launch their ideas faster by cutting out 70% of the up-front dev work required. So it's super gratifying to see someone go from playing around in our editor to getting their MVP out a few days later.
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Congratulations dude 🙂
Divjoy users have now exported over 7,000 React codebases. To celebrate, I've added a "Showcase" section to the homepage that shows off some of the apps people have built using Divjoy as their starting point. Next priorities include adding support for Bootstrap, expanding the component library, and monetization 🤑
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Congratulations! I just checked out your website and I've got a question for you. I'm looking to build an MVP product that involves more than a one-pager website (e.g., Landing page, Account page, actual SaaS product pages). I also plan to use Python as my back-end programming language and I've got experience with JavaScript/React. Is the "Joy" template something that I can use and build additional pages off of that may go beyond the scope of what's included in the template?
Again, congrats, and this honestly looks like it should be easy to monetize once you get to that point!
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Yes! The codebase is structured to be as easy as possible to work on and extend. Depending on your export options we may include some Node.js endpoints (such as one to handle Mailchimp subscribes), but it shouldn't be hard to move that logic over to your custom Python backend instead. If you end up giving it a try and run into any issues at all I'd be more than happy to walk you through it or hop on a call.
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Awesome, will do!
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Hey Gabe, first off: congrats on the sales! Second: is DivJoy mostly focused on landing pages? I'd love to use something like this but for my actual web app (a dashboard, settings page, etc). I see you have those in the builder but I can't figure out how to view/build them (it just shows me the auth/login page). Thanks!
(Oops, I posted my comment twice so I deleted one.)
Hey, so you can signup right in the preview window to view the dashboard and settings pages. I should totally make that more clear. It authenticates with our demo Firebase account.
We don’t give you much on the dashboard currently, but the plan is to add a simple CRUD interface to serve as an example UI integrated with your database. I’d love to hear what kind of things you’d want there.
And then the settings page has basic account info, password changing, and billing management.
Ok cool thanks. I think the CRUD interface you mentioned would be great. For me it would serve as example code I could copy and re-purpose to build other pages in the app. You providing code for anything beyond that simple CRUD example would probably be hard because every app can be so different (unlike landing pages which all have commonly used elements/patterns).
Okay good to hear! Providing more complex functionality is definitely a challenge without going full-on query/schema editor, but hoping I can get some of the more common things in there.
Seems like you need more clearer landing page of your product!
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Congratulations!!! Gabe.
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