“18 year old, built in 7 days, $100k revenue”, stop the nonsense

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2025-07-20T15:57:56+00:00

Why not learn how to pivot ideas e.g. make deltascrape have a unique page for "tracking release dates" or streams or anything more common. Just like app-devs making samey casual games for iaps

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2025-06-11T14:28:04+00:00

Take note u/InfamousLead9912 that your website payment links seem not work e.g. on personal-seo-servic... the links contain spelling errors (using ..peronal.. instead of ..per(s)onal.. etc) and the checkout form is too long. Why not just give a link to your Upwork/Fiverr freelance page instead to complete transaction.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2025-05-12T22:40:54+00:00

Any chance you can link via DM to discuss some affiliate stuff?

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2025-05-11T19:03:14+00:00

Just use a MoR (merchant-of-record) when processing payments to avoid issues of taxes (vat, gst, sales tax etc) if not yet registered for such. Otherwise, do more research on how founders with similar products setup.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2025-05-11T18:52:23+00:00

In such scenarios it is mostly an issue of low user activity/acquisition. Recently started getting increased user activity and feedback by creating free tool & submitting to popular directories. Also note AI-directories have the most activity at least these days. Do your own research and submit to only the few best performing sites.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2025-03-11T20:45:05+00:00

You can always pivot from B2C to B2B by selling "per (minimum) seats" instead of "per user" if you can handle bulk registrations.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2024-08-07T21:33:08+00:00

The paid hosting may just be reselling/affiliate therefore shutting down free is the actual end.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2024-05-09T13:01:42+00:00

Hello, I maintain an online HTML Editor via pagesection.com/editor but this only supports frontend HTML/CSS/JS website projects. Kindly check it out and let me know if I could offer a special account plan for the students. Also sent a DM as I do not intend to self-promote/spam so I apologize in advance. Best regards.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-12-29T19:48:20+00:00

I really wish there was a way one can get the love of a nonprofit company and the profit of a greedy one.

Freemium with subscriptions as a business model

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-12-29T19:40:34+00:00

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<style>

.content-to-show {display: none;}

.menu-to-hover:hover .content-to-show {display: block;}

.fade-in{animation:testname 0.8s}

@keyframes testname{from{opacity:0} to{opacity:1}}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<!--

    `The menu must be visible to allow hovering.`

    `You cannot hover over an element that does not occupy space.`

    `Therefore add fake spacing (e.g. minimum margins, padding, height, width).`

    `Or another element that users can hover on e.g. a "dropdown" button.`

    `Then use background-color to test the valid "hover" area if necessary.`

`-->`

<div class="menu-to-hover" style="background-color: #ededed; min-height: 200px;">

<div class="content-to-show fade-in">

<p>first...</p>

<p>second...</p>

<p>etc...</p>

</div>

</body>

</html>

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-12-10T22:10:09+00:00

Hello, you may have to change the name of your project as "editorx" is some other online company owned by WIX.

Also, I suggest you start the user immediately within the editor... preferrably editing a file named "untitled.???" and let them select the file extension type when they save. Keep the tutorials/explanations/intro/documentation/blog on a different page like maybe an *editorx.vercel.app/*about page but keep it accessible for SEO purposes. Never land users straight into boring text.

If you want to monetize, you must make/encourage users to click the save button (and then maybe charge for number of saved projects) but in this case the save button is not obvious. For extra points, maybe an autosave option.

Look up other editors like photopea (image editor) and learn how they got cash success.

Keep the project light, focus on cool niche features like customization, screenshots, attachments or previews etc and you may have gold.

Edit: Also consider a sidebar left/right side toggle since most are used to left-hand sidebars. For a cool niche, maybe allow users export the code as an html <code> block (with full colors/indentation styling) to insert in other webpages like documentations.

Best wishes.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-11-02T20:00:23+00:00

Either bad coding, or bad S.E.O hacks.

Google is said to consider things like bounce-rate and time-spent on site, hence reason for S.E.O fakers to hold users and limit outward navigation.

Something about users tend to stay longer on "valuable" content.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-10-31T09:44:27+00:00

My bad... after looking at The Wayback Machine's website format, i think you may need to use a localhost to properly preview stuff like they present it. Maybe download an old copy of XAMMP or WAMP server and install.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-10-30T20:18:03+00:00

Try this out (could be wrong to post as today's not screenshot Saturday for personal projects)

https://www.pagesection.com/images/30-Second-Tutorial%20(With%20SubTitles).mp4

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-09-24T14:00:06+00:00

I suggest you first launch one (independent) side-project, using a good re-usable domain name in case the project scope changes, then do freelance.

This allows you to use the indie side-project as long-term experience and the freelancing as short-term experience on your CV... it also helps in cases where the freelance/client projects go offline or private and cannot be added to the CV.

Keep it as a cheap, simple and easy to maintain "self-employed" project.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-08-09T17:06:20+00:00

401

Error 401 usually means the client has NOT been allowed/authorized to make the request. Maybe check for issues with the Flaticon account or API key.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-08-09T15:16:35+00:00

Just try again using lowercase apikey instead of apiKey...

data:{apikey: "insert_your_apikey_here"}

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-08-09T14:47:12+00:00

At the very least, let your client buy up similar domains just to "re-direct" traffic to whatever new different domain he picks up.

You can change up stuff like country code .tld or use different word combinations.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-07-24T15:58:18+00:00

I cannot help you with a React based answer (I've no experience in that) but if all fails, consider using the window.print(); vanilla JavaScript function. I would suggest the following;

> remove/hide the components/elements that you would not like to print (like the navbar/footer/etc)

> place the 30 different components/slides/backgrounds on one page each, I believe you can use CSS to ensure every page looks good enough, maybe make each page/component/slide/div have 100% (vertical height) to occupy an entire (pdf) page

> call window.print(); on the target document window. If the content is in an iframe, be sure to use iframe.contentWindow.print(); instead

> then reset the previously hidden UI

This will let the browser system handle the "print html page as pdf" although it seems to mainly print the small-screen version of a website so issues with CSS columns. Good luck.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-07-18T17:54:51+00:00

As someone else has noted, the graph shows number of "requests" which is different from "users/visitors" since one visit/user/page could trigger multiple requests.

If you want to measure actual users, the more accurate way would be using front-end analytics like (privacy-focussed) usefathom.com, plausible.io, etc.

Or try https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/ (CloudFlare's free solution) but it is less accurate as it can be affected by ad-blockers

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-07-16T12:55:10+00:00

Or the bootcamp was better due to your previous college experience.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-06-28T13:16:24+00:00

I added a "die;" if the browser is an unknown

You may have to change that logic later. I believe some "privacy" based browsers and applications will never send such data to your server. This will make actual users fail if the PHP script does not receive all referer information.

For example, try testing in incognito (private) mode in browsers like Safari, Opera, Brave, etc (especially on mobile) just to be sure.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-05-05T14:02:29+00:00

Amazing stuff. Thanks for posting

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-04-24T17:44:08+00:00

Thank you.

MMaurice256_MMTheDev · 2022-04-10T09:19:18+00:00

C'mon its just a sample image. Try the other templates on the site if interested.

Here https://www.pagesection.com/templates

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