August 2018 Report: 1st month of #turnIndieChallenge

by David Burgos

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.

🚀 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 🏃🏞

💉 Besides, my wife was hospitalized on last week of August and I only workedsome short time periods whenever I could.

⚖ïļ 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 ðŸĪŠ

Of course, not only nice messages 🌈 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 👇

💰 Show me the money and numbers

Along this August Ghostboard got:

  • 18 signups: people who leaved their email 🌎
  • 12 users: signups who validated their email (66%) ✉ïļ
  • 9 blogs: users who set up it in their blogs (75%) ⚙ïļ
  • $15 revenue ðŸ’ĩ

In total:

  • 3 customers actually ðŸŒļ
  • 8 users in free trial (30 days) ðŸŽŪ
  • 1 user in free trial already entered its card ðŸ’ģ
  • 0 cancellations ðŸŽŊ

📚 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 😍

ðŸ‘Ļ‍ðŸ’ŧ 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 ðŸ“ą

⌚ïļ 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.

If you want to follow my progress more closely and my day to day, follow me on Twitter.

😂 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 👋 Thanks for reading!