[Revenue Update] July 2021 - 0.55% of $1,000,000 Goal
July 2021: $461.76
This is a roughly $130 increase from June. Google’s 30% -> 15% fee policy kicked in for the whole month which is where this increase comes from. A bit disappointing given that I had almost an extra $100 from Bento - which means that my Writeaday sales have come down roughly that much.
$1M/year goal progress: 0.55%
I really thought I’d be able to get this number up higher. Especially with an app like Bento. And with Bento I feel like I’ve really exhausted any technical improvements that I could make. At this point it’s all just marketing - which I am notoriously bad at (it seems like a notoriously difficult field as well).
I like the changes to the common infrastructure that I’m building. It’s helping me code quicker and make it really easy to scale features across all my apps. I can feel that this is the right strategy in my gut.
In terms of apps I think I need to really focus on polish. I’ve historically been someone that gets very excited about ideas - always eager to jump on some new app. This has resulted in poor quality for apps that I maintain, which I think could really make a difference in terms of retention and monetizing.
I need to start adding a premium tier to Taskaday as I grow it back up. Maybe a little premature, but this could also be a good chance to build out my common infrastructure for billing, building components that have a paywall on them, building our templates for premium screens, etc.