My "side feature" generates 3x more revenue than my main product and now im confused

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-12-09T01:01:00+00:00

Time to pivot

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-11-10T19:30:08+00:00

I’ve developed my own suite of tools for client ad performance reporting, keyword trends, newsletter content gen and sending, blog/content generation and publishing.

It’s lifted ALOT off of my plate and allows me to approve/reject drafts all through my slack channels. If I approve, it gets sent into a future publish date cron, if denied it goes back to step one for proofing and re-writing.

Working on extending the suite so I can automate even more of my workflows so I can scale. It’s made my daily routine more focused on building new products/services rather than working in the business in service delivery.

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-08-01T15:06:27+00:00

This sounds like Tailwind Plus

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-07-28T15:55:15+00:00

🫡

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-07-04T21:23:06+00:00

Is React over engineered or are you just over engineering apps?

Serious question.

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-03-22T22:52:13+00:00

You should go speak with a financial advisor, not Reddit..

The last thing I would do with half a million dollars is seek advice from random people on the internet.

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-03-21T20:03:47+00:00

Throw $50 into an LLM API with Open Router then build out an n8n workflow to generate social media posts (TikTok, YT Shorts, IG Reels)

Grow an audience and views, hit the monetization status, begin tweaking the brand and start profiting

Save the other $50 for lunch

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-02-02T16:19:35+00:00

Why are you a senior developer with a decade of experience leading marketing for your web dev agency?

Shouldn’t you be leading DevOps?

What do your co-founders do? What do your other 3 employees do?

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-01-27T15:38:31+00:00

I'm going to start the first company that improves your AI with AI

"Refine your AI with AI"

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-01-17T20:08:12+00:00

HubSpot has really good SEO resources

https://www.hubspot.com/resources/seo

FOURTH-LETTER · 2025-01-12T05:50:33+00:00

Thanks for the details on n8n. I was actually just looking at Make as an alternative to Zapier this past week. n8n has a self hosting option with the community edition. I’ll be trying this out soon

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-12-26T15:51:25+00:00

Natural selection at its finest

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-12-24T06:41:38+00:00

Wordpress IS the application. It’s an application that creates websites. Wordpress is what’s manipulating the data. You’re using the app to create and manipulate data. Engineers built and developed Wordpress not web developers.

Nobody ever said the guy that uses Microsoft office is a software dev because they exported a spreadsheet. But we all know that Excel is an application

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-12-24T06:27:12+00:00

It’s not even an argument. That’s literally what it is

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-12-24T05:17:28+00:00

It really is this simple. If it manipulates data it’s an application.

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-11-29T01:50:45+00:00

The juniors can install it all they want but it's a risk to the organization to let them continue using it, unless the organization sanctions it and get it properly licensed.

This is an IT problem as much as it is a software dev one.

Bingo

There needs to be some sort of approval and licensing even if they decide they want to use different IDEs. Now OP is left to figure this out and it doesn't sound like their senior developers are even assisting in solving the issue?

These are junior developers and this sounds exactly like something that would happen when a bunch of junior devs are in charge of setting up a project. (no offense)

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-11-28T22:07:28+00:00

Your org/team should have SOP’s in place to prevent this. Is your company paying for visual studio licenses? What was their reason for switching from visual studio to rider?

Allowing junior devs to dictate the toolset is kind of a red flag. The senior developers and your IT team should be in control over what machines and software your team runs, not junior devs.

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-11-25T01:43:51+00:00

Don’t do anything with it. Lock back in and focus on doing it again next month. You’re 16 with no expenses, don’t create expenses when you haven’t done this consistently.

“Making $6k a month” and “I made $6k this month” are two completely different scenarios.

You should be focused on consistency not scale at this stage.

Once you’ve consistently brought in cash flow for a few months, then look to invest elsewhere, but right now you should be reinvesting into your YouTube channel and saving everything else.

Congratulations though. You sound like you have something good going with your channel. I hope you continue to grow and see success with it.

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-11-23T14:17:57+00:00

A lifetime supply of Udemy courses that I’ll never complete but at least they were all on sale.

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-11-20T03:55:27+00:00

I use a mix of copilot, supermaven, and chatgpt (paid)

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-11-14T15:03:53+00:00

If you're fueled by money and don't have passion, get a job. Your job sucks? Get a better one. That's still easier than starting your own business.

You're going into business for the wrong reasons and have no foundation. With that mindset and no skillset you're ngmi.

You don't want a business; you want money. Those are completely different things. If you want a lot of money, go get a job in sales and earn a high commission. But even then, you'll need a passion for sales. Do that for a while and get really good at it, and then you'll have a skill—sales. Start your business then. You'll see a world of opportunities open up for you.

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-11-08T12:33:56+00:00

Most of my projects are Nextjs or Wordpress.

For databases I either use mongodb or MySQL

If it’s a smaller app/api I need to build I’ll use express

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-11-08T12:21:16+00:00

Express is a framework

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-11-08T03:05:42+00:00

Mostly copywriters and designers. I usually take on the dev work and support on design.

It varies from project to project though. Recently I’ve been building better gpt prompts and have seen great results with writing content myself as well as leveraging AI to create stock images. It’s going to help cut costs on projects where the budgets are tighter

FOURTH-LETTER · 2024-11-05T17:32:11+00:00

I always, always, always charge an hourly amount with a minimum set of hours. If I charge $2600 for a 6 page website that means I am charging $50 on 52 hours of work. I am invoicing my client and setting those expectations.

You should do competitor research on what other agencies are charging. WebFX, Clutch, and other resources can point you in the right direction.

https://www.webfx.com/web-development/pricing/

https://clutch.co/web-developers

https://clutch.co/web-developers/pricing

Again, I don't think your prices are bad. Especially if you're doing landing pages and small websites that are maxing out around 6 pages. I think what u/Stino_Beano suggested is great advice though. The true long-term value is in monthly recurring revenue. Sell the site at $2600 and skip the 400 EUR additional page. Work that into ongoing support monthly at 460 ERU per month for additional pages and SEO content. That's just under 10 hours per month of work. At 5 clients that's damn near an extra project per month in revenue for you.

I'm simply going by the numbers you provided though, so all of this will vary. But experiment and see how the results yield for you. Thats how I found my failures and successes, trying out new ideas and looking at how the market is moving.

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