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Ditching Ads, Switch to Donation Model

To celebrate my first 10k monthly users, I decided to completely remove all ads from the site and honestly ask visitors for their support via BuyMeACoffee.

I'm happy with this decision:

📌It's a lot more aligned with my values.
I hate ads, and they hindered the user experience.
I felt I was undermining my goal of creating the best online tuner and letting down my users.

📌The ads weren't generating much revenue. Just a few donations will actually be much more effective!

I enabled Google Analytics tracking for clicks on "Buy me a cofee" button to track the convertion. We'll see how it goes! 😃

, Founder of Icon for MyGuitarTuner
MyGuitarTuner
on September 3, 2020
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