Evolution of MicroSaaS.art
Goal to share 1000 blog posts.
Hi, I'm Ugur,
I am happy to send the first email of my project MicroSaaS.art, which will push me and do better than I am. There are a total of 4 people who have the same excitement and curiosity as me.
Process
For 1,000 blog posts, I first started writing blog titles into Airtable. I found 400 blog titles. But now I'm stuck. I'm trying to get into technical issues as much as I can.
I have done 3 micro SaaS before. One of them had a team of 2 people. I and my partner. I will try to share the communication problems, frequency matching, operational problems, and solutions in this process.
It will not be written with artificial intelligence!
I will write without the help of artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT or Google Bard. When there are 1,000 of them, people immediately think that they will be made with AI. But I want to write it myself because it's a challenge. I'm challenging myself.
Why 1,000?
It's a long story. There are many reasons why I started such a project. But the biggest reason is that I can create micro SaaS but I have difficulty in selling it. I live in Turkey and the economy fluctuates a lot. I was working as a freelancer in a company, but I didn't have a comfortable working environment as I wanted or deserved. So I left the company and started making products and earning income.
I started creating NotionPlus in January 2023. I first thought of making Notion templates to find customers and I did it. I made about $500. I tried to make more as the money came in, but I started to see that I couldn't sell it.
I had previously developed more than 600 or even around 700 products, but I could not earn regular income from any of them. Until the product I made with my partner earned $1000+ MRR.
At that time, I was both developing products with my partner and working in the company. And I couldn't do both. I had to leave both. I was writing buggy code, creating problems because I didn't test enough.
After that period, I wrote a few articles with micro SaaS on my own blog. Believe me, it still brings me monthly income. Even though it brought as little as 1.51 dollars, it was doing it every month.
I prepared one last template in Notion templates. I really labored, but I was neither spiritually satisfied nor financially. That's when I gave up. This happened a couple of weeks ago.
I could make products but I couldn't sell them. Sales were always irregular. I had to make a lot of effort. I realized 2 things that bring me regular income, Google Adsense and YouTube.
I have a YouTube channel in Turkey for almost 10 years. I shoot web software videos, but it makes incredibly little money. It earns 7-8 dollars a month. But there is order.
I went through a few extra things and my psychology started to deteriorate. The biggest thing that affected my psychological breakdown was that I was sued for a startup. I'm being sued for sharing a YouTube embed on a website. No joke!
When it came to the end, I started to connect all the dots. 300 people a month visit my personal website and it earns me $1 regularly just from Micro SaaS blog posts. I've written a total of 10-20 blog posts. What if I wrote more? What if I wrote 1000, how much money would I make? A lot more than I'm making now.
I have researched and calculated many times. This can fulfill my dream of regular income. I will also prepare a video course on micro SaaS. Apart from the course, the traffic that 1,000 blog posts/articles will give me for years can have fantastic results.
I want to produce micro SaaS for the rest of my life. Maybe I will produce SaaS in my 30s. But I always wanted to make this kind of product.
If I get prosperity in the future, I can do even bigger things. All I want right now is to earn minimum wage per month. The minimum wage in Turkey is 11,402₺, which is $429. Let's round it up to 500. When I reach this money, I want to be a digital nomad traveling first to my country and then the world.
I want this so much that I am ready to write like crazy for this! You've already noticed. :)
Spam
In the process, Google may perceive 1,000 posts as spam. There is also a bad thing called Hacklink. It is the process of damaging your reputation by adding your site to bad sites without your knowledge, and this is my biggest fear right now. Maybe I'll make software that can solve this. We will see what the future will show us.
End…
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Ugur KILCI,
Founder of MicroSaaS.art & NotionPlus.dev