SuccessValley

SuccessValley is now making $1000 a month, enough to cover my rent and expenses!

Probably the biggest thing that helped me get here was charging for advertisement . I charge companies around $65 a month, so I only needed 10+ paying customers.

This is super exciting, because it means that I can theoretically afford to quit my job and go full-time on SuccessValley. But I'm not sure if I'll make that jump just yet…

Amenorhu kwaku

It's been a long slog to get here, but SuccessValley just passed 27000 signups! This has been the result of several efforts, including blogging, social media marketing, press, and podcast appearances.

We were stuck around 10,000 signups for a long time, but what really turned the tide for us was press. I emailed 30 different bloggers and journalists this past quarter, and two of them ended up writing articles that drove a lot of traffic and signups. Now I'm just hoping that a lot of them will convert to paying users soon. 🤞

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Yesterday we launched SuccessValley on Hacker News and got to the front page! Overall it resulted in 6,000 pageviews and almost 100 new signups. Here are three lessons I learned:

Refine your website before launching. There were several typos and errors on my site that I could've fixed beforehand if I'd asked a few friends for their opinions.
Submit multiple times if you have to. This was my third time submitting attempt in two weeks. The first two didn't make it to the front page, but this one did.
Don't pay attention to the haters. There will always be some negative commenters. Ignore them, try not to take it personally, and focus on the positive.
I'm excited for what comes next!

Amenorhu kwaku

I've read so many times that you should solve your own problem, and so last week I sat down to think about all the problems in my life.

It turned out that I had quite a few problems worth solving, and the most interesting one led me to the idea for SuccessValley!

Amenorhu kwaku