Very late report this month. I have been busy in real life, but I don’t want to skip this habit, now that I have been posting every month for the past 16 months.

August has been a good month overall. I progressed in my goal of launching as many products as possible, collecting small wins and adjusting course to keep myself on the entrepreneurship path.

Data Internships

The last email I sent reached more than 1700 subscribers. With a 24% open rate and 2% click rate I think I am close to be able to monetize it. I have looked around for platforms that offer newsletter monetization through sponsors, but it looks like they start from something around 2k followers.

Another way I could explore, is to migrate part of the audience to a Telegram channel. Monetizing a Telegram channel is a bit easier, but I estimate that less than 300 of my subscribers will actually move to the channel. Anyway, it’s worth trying and should not take much time to repurpose the same content I have in the newsletter.

X Topics

I have re-launched Xtopics this month and started to work actively on the product. As of now, it’s a very simple product, a bit more than an MVP:

• focused only on Threads
• only does topic analysis
• only lifetime deal

The launch went better than last time, with over 20 upvotes, 5 new signups and 3 Life Time Deals sold. I have made a funny launch video, that might have helped too.

For now there is no MRR yet, and I don’t really plan to add a monthly plan. I think the product is interesting, the launch has clearly showed that there are people that would pay for it, and in the next month I want to figure out how to reach as many people as possible to understand how far this can go. I need to draft a proper marketing plan, test 2 or 3 channels, and find out which one works best.

Soccrbets

I kept working on the website in August. I published 2 new blog posts and 1 YouTube video (plus 3 shorts). The idea is still to write content to drive traffic to my books, but I am still trying to figure out what is the marketing channel that will bring the highest ROI. In the past I had some success with Reddit, so I will try to repeat that by posting more often, now that the main European leagues have restarted.

The cashflow

Time to look at the income for this month.

The revenue is still stagnating around the $300 mark, and mainly coming from the book sales. First money came from shitposting on X. Now that I have 5M views in the last 3 months, I am eligible to get paid. It’s not much, but it’s still a one-week grocery from me and my family (or two light meals out).

I am definitely not happy about the situation though. I have stopped freelancing in March, and it’s now been 6 months without any significant revenue, despite having launched 3 products in the meantime. But I am not despairing, and I am happy that I have made progress in many areas, especially in my technical skills on how to code and market a SaaS. Probably I will make money with the product I expect the less.

Real life

My baby girl was born 1 week ago, and I feel more focused and energized than ever. I think the time pressure and responsibility make me sharper. When I look back, it’s been like this all my life. I do my best work and take the best life decision when I need to make money for me and my family.

I hope it will work this time too.