I started my project in 2023 and posted here, made 20k that year. The traffic has been slowly decreasing during 2024, and last October, I was officially entering losing territory, where the cost of running it exceeded the total earnings (mostly due to free trials).

It's been a good journey. Thank you so much to whoever keeps running this thread!

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tecleandor 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Just a small comment, as I don't know if you're planning to wrap up or keep maintaining the product...

I can't find the pricing of the product on the site, I only find that I get '10 free credits', but I don't know how much a credit is and what can I do with it.

Home page says it's one credit per diagram, but then the docs say it's a certain amount of credits per modification (that could be correct or not, I guess...)

I usually skip if I can't find the price, but it could also happen that people create the trial account, spends quickly the credits, then they find the price and it doesn't fit them. Of course, there's always people coming just for the free credits.

I don't know if this is helpful to you or not, but I hope so :)

	▲	huydotnet 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you so much, that is a fair point! It's part of a series of mistakes I made, the product started out as a free to try and only showed the pricing after the user used up all their credits (I didn't even have a landing page back then). I'll update the landing page to make this clear!

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KellyCriterion 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

how do you deal with continuous Google-degrading-risk?

I stopped a site lately i ran for 10 years, because Google changed the ranking so often over the years, finally traffic drowned nearly completely like 1k visitors per month, it was so frustrating so I just stopped the webserver after so many years.

	▲	huydotnet 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think the sustainable way is to put more and more backlinks out there, more blog posts, etc. I actually suffered from it too.

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ycombinete 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What do you think led to the fall off?

	▲	huydotnet 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Many reasons: 1) lack of marketing, 2) I stopped working on it for a while, 3) because of #2, the app lacks new features to attract users. Another one but turned out it was never really a big deal: some chatbots from frontier AI labs started to support those niche features (people still coming to my app for the flexibility of using multiple AI models). I think the biggest problem was #2, life kept pulling me the other way.