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Such transparency in #buildinpublic! Kudos Olly.

The public MRR is not what it is. It takes a lot of effort and mental stress to churn out beautiful products and grow them, generally.

I'll also share some bad in the public soon.
I promised to share the good and bad with #buildinpublic

Here's the bad
I never released the monthly expenses of running superblog.ai yet.

In the spirit of #buildinpublic:

Netlify: $19
Sendinblue: $20
Google Workspace: $4
Digital ocean: $5
AWS: $300 (credits)
Misc: $50

MRR: $3200
Total operating cost: $98/mo

97% operating profit.
@themkmaker Thank you Abhishek!

#buildinpublic, word of mouth and SEO. :)
@AmasCreates Thank you so much, Ahmad :)

#buildinpublic and SEO are the only channels.
@bresslertweets Congrats on the milestone, David.

It is sad that such things happen to #buildinpublic !
Cons of #buildinpublic? 🤔
I'm an extremely friendly person and even had made friends off the Tube.

But after getting housenapped, I'm realising that I may having a bit more money than the avg person means that I'll need to have my guards up :/.

It's absolutely heart-breaking, but you know.
Superblog Black Friday campaign stats:

Emails: 2416
Opened: 22.05%
Clicked: 1.48%
Sales: $0

How did it go for you?

#buildinpublic
Elon Musk is running Twitter basically like a bootstrapped indiehacker with #buildinpublic.
@itsmatt_g More power to you.⚡️ #buildinpublic is sharing failures as well.

Some of mine:
- Failed to grow two startups even after raising small funds
- Failed to convert millions of users into SaaS subscribers
- Failed to handle my personal life properly
@volume88 Woah thanks for the tag 😇🙌🏼

The only reason I do #buildinpublic is for building trust. Everything wise follows.

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#buildinpublic is not a marketing activity.

It is a trust building activity.
#buildinpublic is not a marketing activity.

It is a trust building activity.
#buildinpublic is not just about flaunting wins.

I asked the public for what I could be doing wrong & received a TON of feedback. Had very valuable conversations with @antonyjrex @theandreboso @ismaelyws @chburdett in DMs. Very kind of them to ping!

Thank you so much all 🙌🏼
I'm a solo indiehacker building a SaaS. And I'm sure I must be doing something wrong.

Please take a look at the link in my bio and drop your suggestion?

Could be
- Positioning
- Marketing
- Pricing
- Copy
- anything
@Its_Me_Jaga_Duh Thank you Jagadeash :)

1) For people who want an SEO-focused blog (speed, optimizations, best practices, design).
2) #buildinpublic (and word of mouth)
3) Get all the things in #1 by default with the platform.
@james_lester8 Thank you James :)

At the moment, #buildinpublic and word of mouth are generating leads.