Lead Beagle

I've missed the 100-installs milestone so now fixing this with another nice figure.

https://monosnap.com/file/JcizqLwSHFfcL1YdI8vRBkA4qnqWaE

Far from a hockey-stick growth but given that I didn't do any SEO, ads, social posting, it's not bad at all.

Since my last post in December, I've fixed lots of bugs and launched a new version of the add-on. It now includes boolean xray search - a pretty popular thing among recruiters. The tool is not only simpler than the first two (search by name and search by company) but also seem to drive more/ better search traffic.

My first paying customer churned in a month 😭 That was so upsetting, particularly given her very positive feedback.

But then I've got three more paying clients. Two of them do lead generation and purchased the medium plan. But the third one bought the highest plan ($250/mo) and guess what he does - yep, recruitment. So I'm going to dig deeper into recruitment use cases and see how I can laser-focus on that niche.

It's harder and harder to hold myself from working on design of the website, promo's, add-on itself... But I promised myself not to spend time of decorations before I start making at least 1,000/mo. Hopefully that will be my next milestone.

Just got my first ever $$ for a piece of code.

https://take.ms/JGa5dP

And I am not even a developer. Just an old finance guy who codes for fun. I don't even like this tool I got paid for.

I have a good yet demanding full-time job, and honestly, after a couple of months of night work, I was ready to stop this "coding for fun."

Then I thought it would be stupid to quit when it's almost ready. This "almost" happened to be like 20% or close to it, but I somehow finished it, tested it ...

And then I thought how stupid that would be if people won't be able to pay for it, since otherwise I'd be losing money. That meant another coupe of months of night coding, as well as writing, drawing, talking to Google moderators, etc.

Suddenly I realized how stupid that would be if people can't find this tool even when they search for it. So I've wrapped up a simple website and even wrote there something that is supposed to be a SEO friendly texts.

Wouldn't it be stupid having a product website without a single link to it? So here it goes, my first ever external link: https://beagle.dev/lead-beagle

I didn't expect anyone to pay for it, but I was wrong.

That feeling, when getting the "You have a new subscriber..." email -- it's absolutely worth all my sleepless nights!