May 2024 wrap-up
jasonleow • 31 May 2024 •
At the start of May I said I’m feeling burned out. Maybe take a few days, I said. And before I knew it, I took the whole month. Not 100% away from work, but just doing the bare minimum to keep some fires going, while I give myself permission to rest rest rest from my burnout.
So I ended up not doing much this month. I guess I needed it. But burnout is a luxury for me now. So I got to restart, whether I’m back at 110% or not.
A good reminder to keep my eye on the prize: My ideal work-life.
So maybe my list in my April 2024 wrap-up plus my $10k/m plans could point to what I build next:
- Revive Sheet2Bio. Grow through SEO.
- Build a Carrd FAQs info product, or Carrd AI bot.
- Micro-SaaSes for SaaS.
- Add new coaching sprint package to Outsprint, refresh site
- Build side project ideas SleepHack.Ing Museum.SG, Keyboard.SG, InclusiveDesign.SG, Career Conversation Cards
- Continue building Carrd plugins. In fact, triple down on building more than 12 this year.
- Continue growing Lists Kit through SEO and pSEO.
- A Telegram chat bot using Groq’s Llama3
Which one is it gonna be?
Onwards to June!
MAY 2024 METRICS
– Revenue:
- Current MRR: $127
- One-off revenue: $2920
- Total revenue: $3047
- Total costs = $245 (excl. $2.4k MBP)
- Total profit: $2802
- Profit margin: 92.0%
- Total revenue: $2910.90
- Sold 18 plugins at $480 revenue. Sold 2 mobile navbars, 5 testimonial sliders, 1 mega navbars, 6 listings, 3 video button, 1 startup bundle.
- $930.90 in affiliate income from Carrd. Affiliate income = Referral ($869.70) and Seller ($61.20) program.
- Made $1500 from work done for managing @Carrd X account in May.
- No new plugins launched this month, even though I made them:
- Password-protected section, version 2.
- Right-to-left mega navbar plugin (for languages like Hebrew/Chinese)
- Auto-updating translation button (helped a Carrd friend out with his F&B menu site)
- Fixed/rewrote timeline diagram plugin to just use plain HTML and CSS, because Vuetify conflicts with Carrd.
- Reinvested $92 revenue back into product in sponsorship ads.
- Got agreement with YouTube influencer to also sponsor ads on their Pinterest posts. At total of US$30/m (additional +$5 to the existing Youtube sponsorship). Pinterest sponsorship to start next month, in June.
- Telegram Carrd group at 134 members.
- Substack subscribers at 192.
– Outsprint design consultancy
- Got paid S$9.5k for completed coaching project with non-profit client.
- Got paid S$6k for completed design thinking coaching workshops with DSG for a gov ministry.
- Went through 2 rounds of interviews for Deputy Directory position at CoCreate Lab, MSF.
- Applied for User Experience Consultant UXCoE - Singapore Tourism Board.
- Confirmed 9 design thinking training workshops with SP UXC for rest of 2024 and early 2025! 4 online, 5 face-to-face workshops. Fees ~ S$12k.
– Lifelog
- MRR at $127/month.
- 1 customer cancelled monthly subscription. It’s been awesome having you, @evielync!
- 1 free trial ended and monthly subscription kicked in. Thanks so much, @poppacalypse!
- No new features this month.
- Lifelog chat group at 27 members.
- I didn’t engage much with anyone this month due to burnout. Sorry guys, will be back soon!
– Indie solopreneur build in public journey
- Got $10 of coffee from a tweet… thanks Asad!
- Felt so burned out from 3 jobs, 10 projects from Feb to April, had to rest this whole month!
- Badly needed a tech upgrade, so bought a new money-printing machine! A refurbished space grey 14" MacBook Pro, M2 Pro Chip (12‑Core CPU, 19‑Core GPU), 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD. Costs S$3.5k (~US$2.4k) - that’s the max I can go on my budget to get more RAM. Maybe next time for the 128GB RAM, when I hit $10k/m revenue!
- New plans for hitting $10k/m, and what to build.
- Did stock take of all my domains, listed them all in a Google Sheet with fees = 47 in total, costs ~$1000/y in fees 😅
- New algo changes on X again, leading to all-or-nothing impressions. Building in public as marketing is dead. Now back to building in public to make friends.
- No sales this month.
- Added 1 new item a day between the 3 directories - SaaS Starters, Commit365 and Directory Starters.
- Try out Marc Lou’s feedback management tool Insighto - set up feedback board for Lists Kit
No updates this month for:
– Tech for good
– Keto List Singapore
– Sheet2Bio
– Sleep hackers club Telegram chat group
– Sleep biohacking
– Health
– KeyboardSG
– Career Conversation Cards
– Mind My Millions
Onwards!