I would wager that just about EVERYTHING in literature, tech & art has been created by "Standing on the shoulders of giants"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_gi...

LOL. That may be a step too far ;)

Affiliates are generating revenue by helping promote tweetminer. The software used is http://www.idevdirect.com

Interesting. Thanks :)

Yeah. The lump sum transactions are not pro-rata they are logged as in the month they happened.

FYI - First sale was on Oct 17th which probably accounts for the variance :)

Hi jv2222, two questions if you don't mind me asking

a) Did you start selling paid accounts from day 1. Or was there a paid beta period? How many of your paid beta users converted?

b) For payments I see you use PayPal. Can you point to some resources to get the subscription based system with PayPal up and running?

1st Line of code August 10th 1st Signup September 13th (34 days to go beta) 1st Sale October 17th (68 days to first sale - 1 month beta) 1st $1000 November 17th (98 days to $1000)

About 500 beta testers signed up. Very few converted because I gave them all a free pass for one year.

Here's the paypal links I used to get things up and running...

https://www.paypal.com/en_US/ebook/subscriptions/html.html https://www.paypal.com/en_US/ebook/subscriptions/Appx-ipn_su... https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&c...

Other curiosity: are you working on it full time or is it a side business?

Please feel free not to answer any of the questions if you think it is personal. I totally understand.

bokep

TweetMiner has been a side project for the past 3 months - I've been averaging about 2-4 hours work on it per day

Oops! There's a slight bug in the customers by plan stats code. The real number of customers is 51 (2.8%) -- listed on the customers line -- (bug fixed now)

Getting from the first line of code to $1000 revenue is the hardest part of ANY business. Think about it. Google. Facebook. Twitter.

TweetMiner did that in 98 days. That's VERY rare for a web startup, especially for a part time project in a space that everyone says is not monetizeable.

Sometimes it's not about the amount of revenue - it's more about what the business proves. After that it's just a question of scaling and not f*ing up...

I want to add something to this discussion. Something I certainly did not expect would happen. Since I released the revenue figures publicly I have had three angels contact me saying "what are your plans, are you looking for any investment". Imagine that! Angels perusing me!!

As I say it wasn't intended - but it's a nice side note.

Pursue, not peruse. Maybe they perused the statistics though :)

Yes, I've been very motivated by balsamiq - but another big reason is because we talk about it weekly on our tech podcast http://techzinglive.com - the main reason is because this is exactly the kind of data I wish I had been able to see when starting my earlier one man businesses

http://tweetminer.net/stats -- I spent $zero! :)

(check out http://techzinglive.com for weekly updates on how the business has been built)

Oops I guess the domain was an original cost $9