After almost 3 months, I've made it!

Yesterday I made my first dollar on the internet!

After 6 weeks of work I've released templatedocs.io about a month ago. I've posted about it on Reddit, Hacker News and Product Hunt and then waited. And nothing happened.

So I moved on to my next project - magicplayer.ai - which I've just launched a few days ago.

Then, out of the blue, on a Wednesday morning, I got an email notification saying someone made a purchase on TemplateDocs!

How? So TemplateDocs is a managed offering of my 7 years old open source project easy-template-x and the open source readme has a link to it. During the past month traffic kept going and was pretty steady, but no conversions. I was actually planning to go back to it and see what I can improve to better convert.

Now what? With this motivation boost I am now going back to TemplateDocs and will be releasing more features of it soon.

Take aways? I guess the obvious "never give up" and perhaps also that marketing through free tools works.

Thoughts, comments and smears are welcome.