The last blog I wrote was about my journey 3 months in. I had just deployed my first project brandalyze and had made 0 money online from a coding before. I won't keep you in suspense in this article, so I'll let you know now — that is no longer the case. But if you read the rest of the article I'll let you know how.
New Projects
I originally started building brandalyze after opening chatgpt and asking it to give me profitable SaaS ideas (I know it's a terrible idea lol.) I spent a few months working on it and was enjoying the process. It kept me busy at a time when that's all I really needed.
However a couple of months in I started to feel burned out and coincidentally stumbled across a post that said (paraphrasing here) "the best kind of project to build is the one you know." This really made me rethink my approach, and I decided that I would try to build something around a topic that I know, I like and would stick with for a long time.
Anyone who knows me, knows I love media in all forms, so I decided to focus on a media-based project. This led me to develop Tau. Recording time lapses is a method I used to enhance my productivity and focus when I was prepping for job interviews, and I think it's very useful for other domains too. But time lapses can be very boring to look at, so I thought I'd fix that. I turned my love of timelapses into a project and didn't even notice how quickly a month of development went by. After deploying the project, I got my first sale the next day, and the second sale within the same week. I only have $20 in revenue as of writing this post, but that's money I made by building something on my own and it felt amazing.
Pivoting
Since I still have the domain for brandalyze, I want to use the lessons I learned from the initial failure to focus on something I know, and the vague nature of the original brandalyze, and turn it into something that solves a specific problem. I wont mention it here but maybe in another post. I still have the domain, so I'm not going to kill the project.
Learning
I have learned so much that it's hard to put the last 6 months into words, but a lot of it has been sprinkled in the last few paragraphs. Mainly the idea of focusing on building what you want to build, whether it's profitable or not. Focusing on a problem you, or those around may have, that you can actually solve, can bring way better results than you think.
Until the next blog
‐ Dom