It's time to review my first month of #turnIndieChallenge and I'm gonna share publicly the numbers.
Remember if follow me on Twitter you can see my daily progress.
๐ What I did
- Ghostboard: active development and first launch, is the analytics speacially designed for Ghost blogs.
- Starting 2nd project I will launch on September 2018
Not sure if you think it isn't enough but I worked a lot of time and spent a lot of energy ๐๐ผ
๐ Besides, my wife was hospitalized on last week of August and I only workedsome short time periods whenever I could.
โ๏ธ What I got
My review is positive, the best is the good feedback I received, I think some people are really interested in the tool I'm building.
Even it reached the Hacker News frontpage ๐คช
Of course, not only nice messages ๐ but I see signups and users too, let's talk about it in a moment.
The downside is I noticed I have to work a lot more and harder about spread the word and market it, it's a lot slower that I thought.
About numbers, money and so on, I have no problem for sharing, keep reading ๐
๐ฐ Show me the money and numbers
Along this August Ghostboard got:
- 18 signups: people who leaved their email ๐
- 12 users: signups who validated their email (66%) โ๏ธ
- 9 blogs: users who set up it in their blogs (75%) โ๏ธ
- $15 revenue ๐ต
In total:
- 3 customers actually ๐ธ
- 8 users in free trial (30 days) ๐ฎ
- 1 user in free trial already entered its card ๐ณ
- 0 cancellations ๐ฏ
๐บ Coming soon
I keep working actively in Ghostboard, I'm improving and will improving a lot more and I love to see it running in another blogs ๐
๐จโ๐ป On the other hand, I am also working on what will be my second project that I will launch in September. I initially expected to launch at the end of August, but after the launch and traction of Ghostboard I decided to change the direction a bit and it was a delay.
After that, I consider doing even shorter projects and I must explore the world of mobile applications ๐ฑ
โ๏ธ This would be very long if I write everything I am learning, deciding, reading or feeling these days, but maybe I will write about it at another time.
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๐ Oh and if you have a Ghost blog, try for free Ghostboard for 30 days no credit card required and tell me your opinion.
Feel free to ask me anything ๐ Thanks for reading!