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Unavoidable when you run ads I guess 😅

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@maximehugodupre @birdy_so New trend in #buildinpublic haha. Congrats on the impressive growth bro 😎

Building just for the sake of building is so much fun. You should try it sometimes 😄

* ChatGPT helps me write half of the code for this new project. I’m a believer now 🤯

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Inspired by Marc, I'm sharing my 1-year stats for @ktool_io

🌐 93k unique visitors
👨‍🚀 4k+ signups
💰 $7,447 revenue
💳 196 paid customers (136 subscribers)

I'm not going to "quit" it yet but will explore more startup ideas

*AI fomo, here I come 😆

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💡 Pro tip: Don't lazy load images above the fold

It may increase the Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) and affect your SEO ranking.

I managed to remove the CLS issue from Google Search Console with this simple change.

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@DmytroKrasun Ah I remember this SEO trick haha. Glad to see it also works for you. I will continue to share my learnings here. IMO it’s the best thing about #buildinpublic 😄

My Twitter account gained 13K followers in 1 year 🤯

I don't have any "strategy": no threads, no gated content, no engagement groups... 😅

I just tweet what I thought. People like to see me struggle in public 🥹

If only MRR growth is also like this 🤣

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If KTool is a success then my hit rate is 50%

I shipped just 2 side projects in the last 7 years

I'm probably a lot luckier than I realize 🫣

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Giving Google Ads another try 😬

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I got my first MRR from @RevenueCat 🥳

Some observations:

— Conversion rate is low bc $6/mo is pretty high for mobile users

— A few trial users canceled and subscribed on the web instead (I don't have to pay Apple tax, can't complain)

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OK. Rolling your own auth was a mistake 🥹

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Celebrating a small milestone today 🎉

KTool has delivered 100K articles to our users 🥳

My _tiny_ startup has been helping more than 4,000 people gain back their focus 🤓

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If you’re using @PaddleHQ, spend 15 minutes to:

- Enable Checkout Recovery: send abandoned cart email notification

- Apply for Profitwell Retain: automatically recover involuntary churns

This helped me a few times already.

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My onboarding improvement seems to be working

The Setup conversion rate increases from 59.3% to 71.91%

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I shipped a lot in February 💪

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It's a write-release-notes kind of day for me.

I've been using Apple Notes to write most of my content, and I love it.

Although not as powerful, it's better than 99% of web-based editors out there.

Any Apple Notes fan here? 👋

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After improving retention, my focus will be on customer acquisition again

✅ Sponsored 2 newsletters
✅ Booked an SEO service
⬜️ Bring back freemium
⬜️ Add Google Sign In
⬜️ Reach out to 5 newsletter authors

What's your plan for this week?

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Someone signed up using the auto-generated email by Apple.

And the email address starts with "churns" 💀🤣

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Open startup update (Feb 2023)

💰 $525 revenue (+42%)
💸 $702 MRR (+13%)
🤑 $636 profit/mo

👨‍💻 8.3k visitors (-14%)
🧑‍💼 352 new signups (-16%)
#⃣ 4.24% (visitor → signup)

💳 16 new subscribers
😢 3 churned
#⃣ 4.55% (signup → subscriber)

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Failure of the day 🫣

My message for validation email was so confusing that some of my users emailed me the 6-digit code instead of filling it in the app 🥹

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