Retrospective

I've been absent from my projects for the past few months, and decided not to share updates since I wasn't actively working on them. I'm not sure if I have time to jump back into them just yet, but wanted to take a moment to assess the current state of things.

This was by far my most profitable June ever as an indie maker. Compared to last year, I increased the revenue of my indie projects by 3x. Progress baby!

Churn declined and trial conversions increased this month for PageFactory, bringing in a nice change of pace from the previous months.

I attended my first MicroConf in April and got a fresh new perspective on my micro-SaaS projects and indie journey overall. I also released some small improvements to PageFactory this month. Hopefully I'm setting it up to be in a good position so I can explore some other opportunities in May.

On the personal side of things, I had a very exciting month. Me and my partner bought our first home and moved in. I also picked up some programmatic SEO client work in March. But as a result, I didn't get to spend much time on my projects.

Due to very little marketing, growth for PageFactory stalled in February. Luckily, my other projects had a good month.

December was so busy, I skipped writing a proper retrospective and just shared my stats on Twitter. However, life didn't really slow down in January. And things are still pretty busy. So, I'm doing a fairly "light" retrospective for January.

November was very profitable, but in unexpected ways. The launch of my free course brought in a size-able chunk of change, while Black Friday was a total flop.

Even with all my energy focused on finishing my course in October, I wasn't able to publish it until the first week of November. As a result, I haven't had much time to work on PageFactory, and it's seeing the effects.