I made $5,428.91 in 3 days with a side project
Here are some thoughts and behind the scenes of that process.
Conclusion #1
It's possible to make money with open source.
It's not only for massive projects like RedHat, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, etc.
Conclusion #2
Here's the geographical distribution of traffic this week.
United States: 5,449, Brazil: 4,303, Germany: 1,060, United Kingdom: 1,021, India: 910
The US alone has 23% of total traffic, that's important to know especially when it comes to distributing content at the right timezone.
Conclusion #3
I tried sharing on Reddit, Product Hunt, HackerNews, and IndieHackers.
Even though they brought some traffic, Twitter still is the number one referral source.
Twitter: 1,788, GitHub: 1,279, Hacker News: 750, Indie Hackers: 527
Conclusion #4
Net Sales are $5,252.47 (after Gumroad fees, refunds, chargebacks, and affiliate fees);
Total Costs are $120.40 (Mailchimp, Typeform, etc);
Net Profit: $5,132.07
Staying lean is very hard, but I'm focused on maintaining the operational costs as low as possible.
Conclusion #5
Now I'm trying to think of ideas to keep the momentum going.
Any suggestions?