Move on from ProfilePicture.app?

jasonleow • 18 Oct 2024 •
So erhm… I’m losing steam for ProfilePicture.app
Or rather, it’s losing steam.

3 weeks since launch, the numbers are clear:
- It’s mostly driven by lottery luck of going viral on X at the beginning.
- Traffic from X was highest. Direct is second.
- Somehow it got really popular in Indonesia, which drove the initial peak.
- Not for lack of trying, but since then daily views is 100 or less.
- I still don’t know where users come from, or how to reach them.
- Still not hit on anything that people will pay for.
Maybe now’s the time to either quit, or to keep it as a SEO side hobby project to fiddle with over the long term.
Hard to swallow but it had a good run, and maybe it’s time to let go. Or at least, not put in much more effort.
A few ideas on how to continue:
- Explore B2B opportunities - corporate HR initiatives for badges
- Ads? But with traffic like that, unlikely to work
- Sponsors? Same as ads…
- Build for SEO keywords, and wait… Easiest possibility.
What else can I do?
Comments
stay as free tool, I assume not much resources, and drive traffic to others thing you build.
knight • 18 Oct 2024, 2:11 pm
@haideralmosawi I don’t think SEO kicked in yet (if ever) 😭
@knight Yeah it costs nothing to keep it up, so it will stay free for now for sure.

jasonleow • 24 Oct 2024, 2:22 am
Do you have paid options up already? If it has organic reach through SEO, it might still be a project worth developing.