How to Monetize Maker Blogs to at least $99/m
After a few people submitted their blogs via Twitter, I decided to post it on Product Hunt.
To my surprise, it actually went semi-viral and reached #2 for the day on PH. Quite a big deal for me.
Probably a premature 'launch' if I may call it that, as I realised I forgot something major - I never set Cloudinary (my image CDN) to resize images into something smaller before serving as static files. This has caused my bandwidth allowance from Cloudinary to max out, currently standing at 208%. Ouch. Somehow they still haven't cut me off and they are still serving the static images.
I tweeted Cloudinary if there's a way to bulk resize images, but no response yet.
They will probably pull the plug on me eventually unless I pay $99/m for their service, which wouldn't make any business sense, considering I'm not making any money off this site.
Anyone else got ideas on how I can potentially monetise to at least pay for my hosting and servers?
(I added a "sponsor" button to see if I can get a reaction)