In March the Financial Times released their list of 500 high-growth Asia-Pacific companies for 2023.

I went through all 500 to find interesting online success stories with verified revenue numbers 💰.

I very rarely write Twitter threads so really hope you like this one 👇 Shockbyte: Minecraft server hosting, starting at $2.50/m.

Founded by Melbourne-based Mitch Smith while he was still in high school. Forbes reports revenue has now increased to $10M with over 500,000 customers.

Annual revenue: $5.55M 💰
3-year growth rate: 1,324% 📈

I’ve audited over 1,000 websites to help with their SEO.

This includes multi-billion dollar brands, SaaS companies you might know (Ahrefs, ConvertKit, Kinsta), large affiliate sites and everything in between.

Here are some of the most common problems I find 👇 If your site runs on WordPress, there’s a chance that every image you’ve ever uploaded has its own dedicated page, which Google indexes.

Literally just your header, footer, and the image.

Many sites have more “images as pages” than actual content pages. Actual live example...

We recently invested ~$10,000 into a report on what types of sites ranked best in affiliate-populated SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

Something really lucky ☘️ (and unlucky) happened on the way, so before it's live, I'm giving away some insights in this Twitter thread 👇 In March of '21 we analysed SERPs for 10,000 keyphrases where affiliates were likely to rank e.g. "best budget laptop". A follow-up to our popular 1,000 keyphrase analysis from 2019 (270+ comments). We literally 10X'd our original analysis for this 2021 report ⚡️

Looking for your next online business idea? Consider strapping yourself to the back of someone else's rocket. 🚀

Every new Slack user is a potential help desk customer for Halp.com (raised $2.72m).

New opportunities come along often.

10 more examples 👇 Jordan O'Conner (@jdnoc) built Closet.tools to help Poshmark users make more sales on the platform.

Poshmark has over 4 million sellers, so there's a huge audience to tap into. Current MRR - April 2020 numbers in the pic - is $18K/m.

Excited to introduce a revamped Detailed (in beta) which has many new features. First, our free link index is focused on real links from real people, rather than every link that exists. It should make market research easier and quicker than ever before. detailed.com The second announcement is our tweet index which currently contains over 1.4 million tweets. I've used this to run over 1,000 Twitter ad campaigns. Use it to find influencers sharing content in any niche, or people sharing specific sites. detailed.com/tweets/