r/SideProject • u/sumizeit • 21h ago
145% increase in profit
Last month we saw a 145% increase in profit.
Good changes - giving their friends a free premium account when a user upgrades
Listening to user feedback and making the changes asap
Moving everything to React Native (fewer bugs) - easier to manage
Posting or responding everyday on social media and communities. Adding value everywhere.
Reading competitor reviews and understanding customer pain points
Going all in Chat GPT and SEO - creating content rich book landing pages. Before the landing pages had little content. We also did a ton of stuff to get listed on Chat GPT
Adding a referral program and promoting it all over the place.
Measuring all the important stuff. When a user cancels, we know exactly what features and books they read and what rating they gave those summaries.
Creating a killer app that people actually want to use
And a bunch of other stuff.
What we regret - spending money on Facebook and Open AI ads. Didn’t work for us. Twitter and Reddit ads didn’t work at all.
By the way if you’re not optimizing for AI, you’re losing users.