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By far most of my side projects died before seeing the light of day. Either because I lost interest or I found another project that did what I aimed to do better than I imagined.

Only a couple went live but didn't get traction: - A site for ip geolocation lookup - A curated index of conference talks and meetups

Last year I decided that I'd do much more market research before writing any code, and that I'd see it through all the way. So I'm working on https://www.nslookup.io for about half a year now, which isn't profitable yet (€50 monthly cost). I'm still confident I can get it profitable. There's enough search traffic, other tools have horrible UX, and I've committed to spending time on it at least weekly next year.




https://www.nslookup.io/

Why not a droplet? I created something to lookup dns records within a project and it took me a couple of hours

An I missing something about the complexity of it?


I'm using a droplet, but also pay for analytics (Plausible), Cloudflare Argo, ads (100 daily visitors for a euro daily).

The complexity so far has mainly been polishing usability (autocomplete, responsive design, parsing DNS records, adding ip info, etc).


I'm intrigued where you've been advertising a tool like this in such an effective way(?) I don't have a DNS lookup tool so am not competing :-D


That's why ;) No one is advertising a DSN lookup tool, so CPC on Google search is 1 cent. I've set the limit on 1 euro per day, but I could probably buy more traffic if I wanted.


I don’t see any ads on the site. How are you planning to make it profitable?


There are affiliate links to a domain name seller, and I'm planning to add ads from ethicalads. It should break even if I add them and stop my own ads.




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