I was sick and burned out at the start of December, so deep rest was the intention.
And I did!
Took my first ever long break from social media and most other social groups, for 3 weeks. Only in last week did I slowly ease back in. I never thought I’d enjoy it this much… almost didn’t want to come back!
The end of the year was also a time of reflection. I’m happy I did that – realised many things I wouldn’t have, and made me more at peace with my tough year.
Looking back at December last year, I was grateful to have survived and not needing to return to a 9-5. It’s crazy how things had turned out this year, where I actively went to seek 9-5, only to be turned away. And now, I’m not only thankful to have survived but to have gone past survival. For once, impermanence and change was nice to me.
A lot can happen in a year, indeed.
Onwards to a new season!!!
DECEMBER 2024 METRICS
– Revenue:
- Current MRR: $107
- One-off revenue: $4819
- Consulting/Training: $0
- Total revenue: $4926
- Total costs = $292
- Total profit: $4634
- Profit margin: 94%
Detailed breakdown to be completed…
– **[Jason's Plugins For Carrd](https://plugins.carrd.co)**
- **Total revenue from Carrd: $3546**
- Sold 23 plugins at **$442** revenue. Sold 4 mobile navbars, 9 testimonial sliders, 4 mega navbars, 3 listing with filters, 2 startup bundle, 1 dark mode plugin.
- **$1604** in affiliate income from Carrd. Affiliate income = Referral ($1574) and Seller ($29) program.
- Made $1500 from work done for managing @Carrd X account.
- Confirmed I will do technical support for Carrd from Jan 2025 onwards! Offered 2h/day Mon-Fri, at $50/h. Comes up to around $2000-2200 per month income.
- Launched another plugin for [scroll to popup](https://scrolltopopup.carrd.co/?lifelog).
- Relaunched [Blacck Friday](https://blacckfriday.carrd.co/?lifelog), my yearly Black Friday directory of Carrd-related deals.
- Went into marketing overdrive for plugins for Black Friday/Cyber Monday.
- Reinvested $107 revenue back into product in sponsorship ads.
- Got 1+1+ affiliate request on Lemon Squeezy.
- Telegram Carrd group at 201 members.
- Substack subscribers at 265.
– Outsprint design consultancy
- Sent out my last ever invoice to government.
- Completed a 1-day online training workshop for SP, ~ S$1000.
- Completed a half-day face-to-face training workshop for DSG, ~S$840. My FINALE workshop.
- I think November’s the month of goodbyes for my work in Outsprint 🏁
– Lifelog
- MRR stable at $106/month.
- Got 1 new $110 annual sub! Thanks @drodol!
- New feature shipped:
- Added inline search for the rich text editor
- Other fixes and quality of life improvements
- When in markdown editor, hit Cmd+L / Ctrl+L shortcut hotkey to trigger the search posts popup for faster search
- The search bar in search posts popup is now sticky for easier search
- When you view the post and hit back to search results, the popup window remembers your last scroll position
- Changed green star to green “new” tag - I think that works better!
- Fixed markdown editor bug where @mention popup not disappearing even after @ is deleted. Thanks for the bug report, @haideralmosawi!
- No more accidental double posting! Added loader for publish button on both markdown + rich text editor so our trigger fingers won’t post twice
- Other smaller tweaks like adding tooltips, refactoring, fixing minor bugs
- Still thinking about a paid SaaS (inspired by Writebook from Once.com) where it helps aspiring book authors to stop procrastinating and publish their own books on the web for in a simple, browsable online book format, no publisher required.
- Or a SaaS on AI book covers! Based on @Winkletter’s idea.
- Lifelog chat group at 27 members.
– Indie solopreneur build in public journey
– Lists Kit
- Sold 2 copies as part of Black Friday discount. Revenue = $116.40.
- Wanted to move on after first year anniversary review but Black Friday sales got me thinking again… I wonder if it’s about unlocking the right distribution channel?
- Possible next steps: Conduct keyword research to know which long tail keywords to build SEO pages for - sign up to Ahrefs/SEMrush? Must follow the plan here.
- Still no responses from Tailwind version :(
- Thinking about Google Sheets integration…
- Approved 1 new affiliate signup on Payhip.
– ProfilePicture.app
- Got lots of feedback, revamp app to v2.0!
- Did some keyword research - looks like “linkedin profile picture” might be best bet… “pfp” is great but too broad and gamer-related…
- Bought ProfilePicture.app domain from Namecheap!
- Managed to 301 redirect the subdirectory path /profilephotoeditor to profilepicture.app
- Tried #MooDeng, #OpenToMRR, #IVoted badges but the world didn’t take.
- Realised this is more of a meme generator, but it’s losing steam tbh…
- Added a CTA link to test if the B2B white label, custom badge generator idea for teams/companies will work…
– Tech for good
No updates this month for:
– Keto List Singapore
– Sheet2Bio
– Sleep hackers club Telegram chat group
– Sleep biohacking
– Health
– KeyboardSG
– Career Conversation Cards
– Mind My Millions
Onwards!
