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Serial MicroStartup Maker ✈️ @VisaListHQ πŸ“ https://t.co/UxrYSoj6NY πŸ’± https://t.co/FvIk8GZoZN πŸ–₯️ https://t.co/Q3oW4lHXVY MicroAngel  tweeting experience
Feb 3, 2022 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 3 min read
How I went from $6k/month before COVID to $1.7k/month in the middle of COVID to now $10k/month at the near end of COVID

Delighted that visalist.io crossed $10k mark for the first time

Some learnings I had πŸ‘‡ Image 1/
Anythings can change:
visalist.io was about to generate highest revenue before COVID, instead dropped to the bottom. But I kept at it, made COVID tracker, started showing warnings to users, showed what's opening up. Got everything back on track.
Jan 1, 2022 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read
2021 My Microstartups Rewind πŸ”

Total Revenue and expenses
πŸ’Έ Revenue - $117K/year (67% β–²)
βš’οΈ Expenses - 3K/year
🌟All time high revenue - $15K/month in Dec (18% β–²)
🎯Daily goal - $500/day reached in Dec Image ✈️ visalist.io

πŸ’ΈRevenue - $50K/year (39% β–²)
πŸ“ŠAll time high revenue - $8K/month in Dec
πŸ‘₯Total Users - 2.6M/year
⚑ Active Users - 250K/month
Sep 30, 2020 β€’ 12 tweets β€’ 3 min read
Reddit has 300M+ users. I posted successfully and got around 100K traffic to my microstartups.

Do you also want to post successfully on @Reddit ?

These are some of the tips that I followed and got my posts to go viral multiple times, compiled into a small thread.

πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡ Tip 1: Content for any post on any subreddit can be either videos, images or text. Some subreddits limit it to two or only one of them. So get the content ready beforehand.

Video > Image > Text
Sep 18, 2020 β€’ 11 tweets β€’ 6 min read
πŸ“¬ Want to improve email conversions by 25%?

Follow these simple tips to create trust and increase brand value

Last month I posted a similar thread but a lot of people got confused so this time I have broken things to their basics.

♻️ RT so more people can benefit

A threadπŸ‘‡ Image 1/ Showing your company logo on transactional emails increases its value and increases the chance of being clicked. It also creates trust and builds the brand. Image
Sep 13, 2020 β€’ 7 tweets β€’ 2 min read
I have some bad habits as an Indie Hacker

These are some of the bad habits that I have seen over the last 3 years. I tried to get rid of these, hopefully you will too.

A thread πŸ‘‡ 1/ Having second thoughts: If you don't have a great launch doesn't mean your product is not great. Don't second guess, give it your 100% and time, things usually turn around.
Sep 11, 2020 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 2 min read
😐Microstartups Revenue down by 45% from last month but it increased by 96% from the last quarter during COVID, a positive side.

Sharing August monthly stats πŸ“Š for my microstartups as part of #openstartup movement

detailed stats πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡ Image 1/ Looks like travel is picking speed, I doubt it will go back to previous heights anytime soon but the uptrend is always a good sign! Image
Sep 2, 2020 β€’ 13 tweets β€’ 3 min read
I passed up an opportunity to make $200K in revenue. Want to know why?

A few days back, I was asked by AppSumo for simpleops.io to be featured on their platform, but I ended up saying no.

πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡ Image 1/ Revenue share is just 25%, which means if they sell a lifetime deal for $49 I get only $12. It does make any sense even in the long term. The potential is $200K, so it will be just $50K
Aug 26, 2020 β€’ 18 tweets β€’ 3 min read
The story of how I build my successful microstartup ACrypto, a cryptocurrency app.

These are the things that I did and grew it to $4000/month.

πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡ 1/ Around 2017, a good friend of mine introduced me to Bitcoin. I was very fascinated by cryptocurrency and started investing in small amounts.
Aug 15, 2020 β€’ 11 tweets β€’ 4 min read
πŸ“¬Want to improve CTR for transactional and promotional emails?

Follow these simple tips to create trust and increase brand value while improving email CTR.

πŸ§΅πŸ‘‰ 1/ Showing your company logo on transactional emails increases its value and increases the chance of being clicked. It also creates trust and builds the brand.
Aug 7, 2020 β€’ 12 tweets β€’ 5 min read
⚑️Want to know powerful ways to supercharge your NGINX server and improve its performance?

These are some of the changes that I did to improve the performance and security of my microstartups visalist.io and simpleops.io

πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡ Image 1/ You can get these performance benefits easily. You don’t need to be a DevOps expert to make these optimizations. Anyone who is new to web applications and is using NGINX can use these steps. All you have to do is edit your NGINX config file.
Jul 31, 2020 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 3 min read
✨I have crossed $10k monthly revenue for the first time in 3 years. A new milestone in my indie hacker journey. 😎

Sharing July monthly stats πŸ“Š for my microstartups as part of #openstartup movement

detailed stats inside πŸ§΅πŸ‘‰ Image visalist.io was making around $7k monthly and i was on a roll back in February before the pandemic happened and hit everyone, especially the travel industry. The revenue was falling freely till last month where it slowly recovered. Image
Jul 22, 2020 β€’ 8 tweets β€’ 3 min read
Want to post successfully on Hacker News? follow these simple tips

These are the tips that i followed and got my post to first page of @newsycombinator multiple time

A thread πŸ‘‰ Image 1)

Tip#1 Title should always be as unique as possible. At the same time simple, HN doesn't like cheesy titles. Title like "Show HN: XXX - does YYY" only works when you have something entirely new or unique. So try to find unique angle.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=238800… Image
Jul 18, 2020 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read
#5 on @newsycombinator

Me: Stay calm, it won't crash your servers, you have done this before
HN: 🀣

news.ycombinator.com/news Image Okay #3 now

My mind: should I panic and double check everything?
Me: watching new netflix tv series cursed
HN: 😍 Image
Jul 18, 2020 β€’ 5 tweets β€’ 2 min read
Want to get more SEO traffic? follow these simple tips

These are the tips that i followed and got 0 to 400K monthly users just through SEO.

A thread πŸ‘‰ 1)

Tip#1: The important and unique keywords should be towards the left of the title

When you have many pages, all will look similar starting with "Best countries to visit with ...", moving unique keywords to left makes these pages unique and ranks higher
Jun 22, 2020 β€’ 5 tweets β€’ 3 min read
⚑My new microstartup simpleops.io progress β– β– β– β– β– β– β– β–‘β–‘β–‘ 70%
Almost ready for MVP launch πŸš€

βœ… Finished adding monitors for performance, speed and downtime.

Dogfooding using my own website visalist.io ! Image I see some of you guys tried to signup, I reckon there was bug stopping you from going past the setup screen.πŸ˜… It's fixed now, you can give it another go!!
Apr 2, 2020 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read
Month on Month growth decreased for the first time in last 15 months of Visa List.

πŸ’Έ $3,838 Monthly Revenue (-50%)
πŸ› οΈ $80 Monthly Cost (50%)
🚦 928K pageviews (-7%)
πŸ‘₯ 295K MAU (-28%)
πŸ”Ž 3.3M Search Impressions (-18%)

visalist.io/open

#openstartup #IndieHackers Image I have been working on coronavirus tracker, even though it doesn't generate any actual revenue, gives me satisfaction that I'm doing my small bit.
Also all the pro features in Visa List are free to use for a month keeping #COVID19 in mind.
visalist.io/emergency/coro…
Mar 12, 2020 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 2 min read
How I got 200K pageviews by making a NanoStartup and now it's the most used page in visa list. Even though I don't make any revenue from it. I feel it's one of the best things I have done so far this year.

#nanostartup @IndieHackers Image In January I made a conscious choice to build a coronavirus tracker. I was procrastinating on it for two weeks and finally built it at the beginning of February in 24 hrs. I thought it will be useful for visa list users who are travelling.
Dec 10, 2019 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read
sidemail.io is by far the easiest and most affordable email service i have used. I was up and sending welcome emails in 10 mins. That's it. It can send transactional, marketing and newsletter emails for free. Kudos to @pkrupar for making so damn easy to use product. It support dark mode from get go and is ready for different email clients. All you have to do is upload two different icons for light and dark themes. You are future ready for upcoming support for dark mode in email clients.
Oct 18, 2019 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read
Just had the worst experience with @oyorooms , apparently even oyo already knows this and they willing put every visitor to Vizag face this problem. After 3 hours talking to oyo customer service, hotel guys and to and forths we didnt get any solution or a room. All the hotel guys have ganged up against oyo as oyo is taking a lot of commission and so they are denying online paid booking and only allowing pay at hotel bookings.
Sep 18, 2019 β€’ 12 tweets β€’ 8 min read
visalist.io #performanceπŸ“ˆ
How i improved performance of Visa List from
~90
↓
~34
↓
~81

You might have seen people posting perfectπŸ’― perf score but for big web apps its not easy at all

Perf is also important for
1. SEO
2. Conversion
3. UX

#seo #perf #ux ImageImage When you first launch your web app, you don't worry about performance that much. Visa list was ~60.

After it got traction, improved things, got it to ~90. So this was when there were hardly any features. But as you keep adding new features/libraries its becomes hard to improve.
Jun 2, 2019 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 3 min read
visalist.io timeline πŸ“Š
Launch: Viral
Month 0: 100K users 🀯
Month 1: 30K users πŸ₯Ί
Month 2: 20K users ☹️
Month 4: 40K users πŸ€”
Month 5: 80K users 😬
Month 6: 150K users 🀩

Don't give up and believe what you want, you will slowly but eventually reach your goal. Image Launch plan is the half the battle, sticking along the path and surviving the long winds of winter is the real test while you dream for the spring to come.