[Revenue Update] December 2021 - 0.2% of $1,000,000 Goal
Current Status
$297.43 (Sep) → $323.01 (Oct) → $300.09 (Nov) → $225.74 (Dec)
24.78% decrease from last month.
Active user numbers continue to dwindle.
End of the year/new years saw a pretty massive increase. I wish I timed that increase with some much needed new features and bug fixes.
I love Bento and use it every week to copy multiple snippets while reading on my phone.
But it’s incredibly niche and I’m not solving a big enough need. Maybe there’s a way to grow this app by really changing reading behavior but introducing a completely novel behavior is a lot of work that I just don’t care to do. This was always a personal passion project.
I’m going to stop giving updates on this one. It’s getting no traction, though I do still there’s a way I pivot this app into something that’s more broadly useful. The timing may be more right once adoption of tools like Notion and Roam really take off and the global note-taking behavior shifts.
The app that I’m placing all my hopes and dreams on.
I found something that worked fairly well in Writeaday (people were engaging in this feature despite it being relegated to a sidebar and it was definitely not the main focus of the app).
I’m running out of ideas for new features. There may be some more interesting ways to tackle gratitude journaling that I’m missing. Mood tracking, mood exercises, maybe pulling in unsplash pictures, calming music, writing timer.
Next Steps
Writeaday - release the update with cloud sync, bug fixes.
5 Minute Journal - ideate and build features that elevate gratitude journaling.
Infinote - build a radically different way of taking notes on mobile.
I need to grow Infinote → 5 Minute Journal levels (50 DAU) and grow 5 Minute Journal to Writeaday levels (700-1000 DAU). Would be great to do this by March.