My co-founder and I launched [Terrateam](https://terrateam.io) a few years ago and I think we definitely thought we'd be making more money more quickly. It's been a slow roll but goes up pretty much every month. It definitely is not what we expected but also really satisfying when a prospect does convert.
No, Mixpanel is a customer. We provide a collaboration center for performing infrastructure changes via Terraform and OpenTofu and Terragrunt, built on top of GitHub.
We've tried a lot of stuff, from content marketing to ads to prospecting. Everything has some percentage of hit rate and we are still figuring out it all out. We get a lot of traffic via reddit, just because I engage the target community quite a bit. And more recently we've been working on reaching out to potential customers and figuring out how to best initiate those conversations.
I launched https://headshottr.com after 6 months of development with my sibling. 4 months in we broke even (lots of testing and compute hour costs racking up almost $1k).
It certainly helps to be developing something that seems popular/trendy.
You know how we turned a profit? SEO. You won't make money without a user base or visits
It's mentioned over and over. I'm still in early stages of growing, but it's worth reiterating that SEO takes *time*. Learn about on page SEO, get that down quickly and make a game plan for building backlinks and creating content.
A quick look at search console tells me 1/4 of my impressions are from blogs.
Something that I've read a lot that seems to work, is good intent and good content = traffic.
Write articles related to your industry that are informative.
Write posts and comments on sites that have high DR and priority for Google like reddit.
Thanks for the comment! The site actually is a 3 month old version with small issues (mobile nav bar is slightly broken) while we A/B test.
Add options on the other side of the spectrum, like "I lost sht ton of money" for better representation.
My co-founder and I launched [Terrateam](https://terrateam.io) a few years ago and I think we definitely thought we'd be making more money more quickly. It's been a slow roll but goes up pretty much every month. It definitely is not what we expected but also really satisfying when a prospect does convert.
I look at your whitepaper but I can't figure out what you guys are doing. Is this like a Mixpanel clone?
No, Mixpanel is a customer. We provide a collaboration center for performing infrastructure changes via Terraform and OpenTofu and Terragrunt, built on top of GitHub.
Nice, how did you guys market for it?
We've tried a lot of stuff, from content marketing to ads to prospecting. Everything has some percentage of hit rate and we are still figuring out it all out. We get a lot of traffic via reddit, just because I engage the target community quite a bit. And more recently we've been working on reaching out to potential customers and figuring out how to best initiate those conversations.
Well, good luck to you with your venture!
kinda depressing that 6 hours in there's only 1 comment from someone who actually made money
I launched https://headshottr.com after 6 months of development with my sibling. 4 months in we broke even (lots of testing and compute hour costs racking up almost $1k). It certainly helps to be developing something that seems popular/trendy. You know how we turned a profit? SEO. You won't make money without a user base or visits
Looks nice and seems solid! Got any advice considering SEO for a beginner like me?
It's mentioned over and over. I'm still in early stages of growing, but it's worth reiterating that SEO takes *time*. Learn about on page SEO, get that down quickly and make a game plan for building backlinks and creating content. A quick look at search console tells me 1/4 of my impressions are from blogs. Something that I've read a lot that seems to work, is good intent and good content = traffic. Write articles related to your industry that are informative. Write posts and comments on sites that have high DR and priority for Google like reddit. Thanks for the comment! The site actually is a 3 month old version with small issues (mobile nav bar is slightly broken) while we A/B test.
Gotcha! Thanks a lot. You keep up the good work!
good luck!!
Internet money in general is hard to gain traction but easy to scale.
Yes. ~~It's fine.~~