To me, the new year truly starts after Chinese New Year. So January always felt like just onboarding month for the new year. Just prep work, just getting your sea legs for the real voyage ahead.
But things had been promising.
I started another gig with Carrd this month, doing tech support. Still settling in, but getting the hang of it now, starting to clear support tickets much faster. Monthly earnings are up, and the most important, stable. We’re past survival stage, and that is good.
But still, I’m restless. They say the year of the snake is a year about rebirth, shedding negative energy, and bringing restlessness and movement, to be engaged and active. And I am definitely feeling that. Researching SEO for my ideas are giving me more data and thus more confidence in my ideas, and I’m impatient to start building. Having time to launch something new is tough because I’m essentially working 3 other jobs beside my products. But I’m determined. But determined to stay balanced too.
It’s all good signs of a better year to come.
Onwards to 2025!
JANUARY 2025 METRICS
– Revenue:
- Current MRR: $107
- One-off revenue: $6519
- Total revenue: $6626
- Total costs = $330
- Total profit: $6296
- Profit margin: 95%
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!
