Another month another report. Looking at my notes, it seems such a long time ago. I guess that means I am making progress, or at least I am moving forward and doing things. Which is positive.

I started to meet new people again in June, which is something I didn’t do since a very long time. Living in another country is complicated to find new people, but social media help. Despite all the hate and brainrot online, I still think social medias are a net positive in people’s lives. Especially people that travel a lot and have non-standard interests.

Work-wise, I kept freelancing, this helps me have a stable income. Although I am not saving, and actually losing a few hundreds each month. Life is expensive in Moscow, and the exchange rate is not making it easier.

Time is still an issue, but getting better. I manage to find time to build on the side, especially at night and sometimes on weekends. I got into a routine where around 9 pm everybody is asleep, and I can build for 2-3 hours. I think that’s what Pat Walls does. Focused work for 2 hours every day is enough to build a business.

But I feel like I’m a bit rusty and cannot ship as fast as before. That’s why in June I decided to challenge myself. I am going to ship 3 products by the end of the Summer. Ideally one each month. Let’s see if I can make it. The goal is to build some ship muscle, not to launch a big success. Low expectations.

Data Freelance

I didn’t write any article this month. Too busy building. But I am going to start writing a write-up of my freelancing activities with full breakdown of revenue there. If you are interested just follow the TG channel.

Somehow subscribers keep increasing. There are now 65 members, which is 8 more than last month. Maybe I can get top 100 before the SUmmer ends.

Data Internships

No activity this month. I had a chat with Fran Betteo on X the other day. Gave me some motivation, maybe with a bit of hustle I can get a few hundred bucks. Very inspiring story.

Subscribers were stable in June at a total of 2030.

xTopics

I launched a Product Hunt trend tracker! It’s built on Product Hunt API, and it shows the trending topics in the top products that are launched on PH. The launch went well I must say. I got featured, with 130 upvotes I was in the top 20 of the day. Did it translate in sales? Not so far, but I got 15 new subscribers. None of them uses Threads, so I guess they are pretty much useless. But they might be an initial set of users in case I decided to pivot in the direction of a Tech trends tracker.

As I wrote before, this was not really an effort to launch a new product. It’s been more to exercise my shipping muscle. I have already improved my boilerplate a lot and the next product I will launch will be even better.

Soccrbets

Season over, no new updates. Will I keep working on it in the future? Not sure. As I wrote in the past, I have too many things going on and this is not bringing the results I expected (selling more books). I actually sell more books when I yap on X. Maybe the YT channel is still worth it though.

I have got now 45 subscribers on my YT channel, +5 from last month and the subscribers on the TG channel grew to 72, 1 more than last month.

Freelancing

Still doing it. I am keeping the number of projects low for now, because again, I want to keep some time free to pursue side projects. I am going to write more about this (including revenue and projects I work on) in my TG channel.

The cashflow

Time to look at the income for this month (without freelancing).

Last month I was thinking of reinvesting all money setting up ads for my books or paying for some API that could improve my products. I invested in Ads and saw a small uptick in sales, but unfortunately I cannot advertise my betting books on the platform. I am now trying to advertise my books of Stoic quotes, and it’s going all right so far.

The future

My immediate goal is to launch another small product. This is just to exercise my shipping muscle, I don’t have expectations of big earnings. I will launch in mid-July, probably. My third project will most certainly be a book. I want to take self-publishing more seriously, and I think I can be successful at it. Let’s see.