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Fun fact: railsnotes.xyz costs me $0/mo to run.

- analytics: @umami_software (free)
- email: @beehiiv (free)
- hosting: @vercel (free)

Results: 12k+ views, 140+ newsletter subs. πŸ“ˆ

Aiming to stay lean for as long as possible. no expenses = no stress.

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And the Domain Rank (DR) for MONN continues to climb!

πŸ“ˆ According to Ahrefs, monn.app now has DR:7, up 3 points over the last ~2 weeks!

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Added a new logo cloud animation to monn.app for the landing page.

Super happy with how it turned out! What do you think?

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wow! my SEO push has started paying off BIG time! πŸ“ˆ

One of my recent blog articles I posted to monn.app/blog has started taking off in Google search!

Impressions, clicks and backlinks are starting to rise!

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I've spent the last few days redesigning the MONN blog. What do you think?

Tried to keep it simple + elegant

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It's been 1 month since I started building and marketing MONN.app.

Full Stats for May -
- Pageviews: 3000 πŸ‘€
- Waitlist: 3 πŸ₯²
- Blog posts: 8 πŸ“πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»
- Domain Rank: 0 β†’ 3.6
- Search Impressions: 394 πŸ”

How did I do?

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Just checked this morning and looks like the Domain Rating for monn.app is slowly rising! πŸ“ˆ

This first month of SEO and link building has felt super slow, but it seems like it's starting to pay off.

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4. repeat

Keep doing this, write good content, and share it around.

You'll start to see the results trickle in.

These are the results for monn.app after 1 month β€”

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Got the first few subscribers to the MONN.APP waiting list!

Been heads-down building for weeks now β€” it's great to get a tiny bit of validation for all the late nights πŸŒ›

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I've been working on something new.
It's still an MVP, the landing page sucks, and I should probs be building instead of tweeting πŸ˜…

Roast me - monn.app

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That's my main stack for buybase.io β€”

It handles the main site, the blog, analytics and deployment β€” pretty crazy what you can do with a few tools!

Any questions? Ask away!

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On the SEO side, I've decided to post this article to the buybase blog (buybase.io/blog/sell-airt…) and link directly to it on the homepage.

I figured this would give the best balance of good SEO and ease of development.

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been getting heaps of interest in buybase.io from the Twitter and IH communities!

Next step is getting people to convert and start using the app πŸ˜…

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buybase now has a blog!

building the blog was the first part of my long-term marketing efforts as part of marketing week.
let me know what you think!

built with @tailwindui and @nextjs (so pretty <3)

live now ➑️ buybase.io/blog/changelog…

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traffic spike! πŸ“ˆ

woke up to a massive traffic spike driven by this thread!

Thanks Twitter gang <3

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This is the main tech I used to build buybase.io !
Follow me if you're interested in more behind-the-scenes stats and info and I try to scale buybase to $1000 in revenue!

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Here's a peek into the stats for buybases.io during its first few days live β€”

not much happening right now! πŸ˜…
that's ok thought β€” this week I'm shifting my focus to marketing, so we'll see what kind of impact that has.

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It's been a massive week for buybase!

- βœ… 3 big new features! (Access codes, analytics and emails)
- βœ… launched the main app & marketing site
- βœ… got my first user and bit of feedback

Planning to focus on marketing next week, I'll be sharing my results here!
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Just added transactional emails to buybase.io β€” took about 30 minutes with @sendgrid, so fast!

Now, when someone purchases access to your database, the access code is emailed to them + a handy view link

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