Commiting to a single project for 10 years is awesome, must have been hard the first few years with very little revenue to keep the motivation.
How are people finding your site? Mostly Google? I find getting any visitors at all to be a hard problem if you do not already have an audience.
You misspelled bandwidth on your pricing page: https://app.pagewatch.dev/40f64ffa08475710b3630c1f35f9e7ee38...
Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
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Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#132Congratulations! That's amazing and as someone mentioned, much more successful than over 99% of startups in the history of mankind. Notes: I really like the theme, the barbershop candycane aesthetic does cry out "mail's here!" ... I think that the text on steps 1-3 is a bit dense and could be thinned out, or reduced somehow. The comparison chart on the price page is nice and clear except I would suggest adding some s…
It’s airmail aesthetic, not barber, but i agree it looks good.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#133Superinteresting! How much does it cost for 10 years to mantain a service like that? I think about server, domain etc... without computing time costs.
I have a side project related to books and I would like to forecast eventually 10Y of server/domain/ect costs
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#134Why don't you apply for YCombinator?
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#135I now saw the video, Great explaination! I registtergred and will you it for sure! seems like a great product!
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#136Incredible project! I've been using custom email aliases for the better part of the last decade (I'm running my own mail server) but it never occurred to me that this could be a profitable business.
My main pain point with my current setup is the following: It takes a few minutes to set up a new email alias. I therefore wonder: How long does it take with your service? Would your users maybe appreciate an app (a super simple one) for Android/iOS that allows them to create a new alias within seconds?
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#137A market segment you might be neglecting is that of users needing protection
from malicious trolls or stalkers. An email alias of the form you provide is
no protection at all to them, because the troll can follow the instructions
on your landing page to send any number of messages to the same user by
choosing a new alias for each message. An easy solution is to allow the
option of accepting messages only on pre-defined aliases.
If you do that already, it would be good to mention it in
the FAQ.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#138Wow, this is heart-warming for me! I've now spent 8 years developing my project [1], and still making only a tiny piece of revenue. I'm now at a state where I double my active users every 4 months, so hopefully my ramen-revenue is close.
The deal with my project is that it a huge undertaking, and only provides real value near completion.
Keep grinding! :), I wish I can replicate your success.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#139There's an additional benefit worth talking about: if you use these addresses exclusively when creating accounts you can track who has been sharing your data. E.g. it would be obvious who is responsible if you found facebook@john.example.com in a data dump.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#140The comments can be so funny on HN sometimes. You built something and committed to it for a decade. That’s so freaking cool! Take all feedback with a grain of salt. You’ve been around longer than most apps that launch on Show HN. Keep it up!
What comments can be “funny”?
I just went through the top 40 comments on this post and I couldn’t see nothing but praise and congratulations (with a couple suggesting to raise prices, which I think are with good intent).