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By far most of my side projects died before seeing the light of day. Either because I lost interest or I found another project that did what I aimed to do bette
by pul 6y ago
By far most of my side projects died before seeing the light of day. Either because I lost interest or I found another project that did what I aimed to do better than I imagined.
Only a couple went live but didn't get traction:
- A site for ip geolocation lookup
- A curated index of conference talks and meetups
Last year I decided that I'd do much more market research before writing any code, and that I'd see it through all the way. So I'm working on https://www.nslookup.io https://www.nslookup.io for about half a year now, which isn't profitable yet (€50 monthly cost). I'm still confident I can get it profitable. There's enough search traffic, other tools have horrible UX, and I've committed to spending time on it at least weekly next year.
- NicoJuicy 6y agohttps://www.nslookup.io/ https://www.nslookup.io/ Why not a droplet? I created something to lookup dns records within a project and it took me a couple of hours An I missing something about the complexity of it?
- pul 6y agoI'm using a droplet, but also pay for analytics (Plausible), Cloudflare Argo, ads (100 daily visitors for a euro daily). The complexity so far has mainly been polishing usability (autocomplete, responsive design, parsing DNS records, adding ip info, etc).
- petercooper 6y agoI'm intrigued where you've been advertising a tool like this in such an effective way(?) I don't have a DNS lookup tool so am not competing :-D
- pul 6y agoThat's why ;) No one is advertising a DSN lookup tool, so CPC on Google search is 1 cent. I've set the limit on 1 euro per day, but I could probably buy more traffic if I wanted.
- atlgator 6y agoI don’t see any ads on the site. How are you planning to make it profitable?
- pul 6y agoThere are affiliate links to a domain name seller, and I'm planning to add ads from ethicalads. It should break even if I add them and stop my own ads.