Tag: #build-in-public

Yesterday I took the password off the site; today I'm submitting the sitemap to Google. What I owe a text I didn't write, and what broke in the first hour.

Nine months of Call Copilot in one breakdown: the full funnel from install to payment, €517 of ads that brought zero sales, and why the most active customer loses me money.

A week of hunting for external traffic: a directory where I'm 144th in the list of alternatives, and Reddit, where the first post is a month of karma-building away. The conclusion — the only channel that depends on me alone is my own hub.

Stripe is wired up, a test payment went through on production, self-hosted analytics is running on my own server. A week of work on the hub — and from the outside the site looks exactly the same as before.

I'm hauling dictation into the hub and trying to join three products on three different technologies into one subscription. So far the one thing their economics have in common is that it's negative everywhere.

Four hours without a break — and the subtitle editor is deployed to a domain that had been dead for years. The free half works, the paid half is planned, and $250 is set aside for ads.

I went through a year and a half of my voice notes and counted sixteen projects: some in repositories, some on subdomains, some living only in my memory. I decide to build one hub: a single domain, products in categories, a blog as the foundation.