Alright, so here's the deal - I'm actually a tech support guy by trade. Never really messed with development before. But man, these last couple years, AI's been blowing up so fast that even a half-baked coder like me can whip up a website with a little AI magic.
Things have been kinda tight money-wise lately, you know? So I figured I'd try my luck overseas and see if I could make a buck or two. That's how I got into this whole website building gig.
This site here? It's my 7th creation. Out of the first 6, three were WordPress jobs - barely any real coding there. The 4th one was a simple static page I cobbled together with JS, HTML, Tailwind, and threw it on the cloud. Just for practice, you know?
For number 5, I jumped on the Next.js bandwagon that everyone's been raving about. Hooked it up to some third-party API to make an auto image expansion site. It hasn't really taken off yet though. Weirdly enough, I added a ton of backlinks, but Google Search Console only picked up on the one from V2EX.
Site number 6? Just recycled the same template.
Now, here's what I've figured out from all this: You don't gotta build out all the fancy features right off the bat. Just slap together a landing page, nail the SEO, and once you're climbing up those Google rankings, then you can worry about adding all the bells and whistles.
Take my previous site (aiexpandimage.org) - I knocked out that landing page in a few hours tops. But the actual features? That took me a good week or two. Right now it's hovering around 64 in Google rankings on average. Gotta keep building those backlinks and getting the word out.
Learning from that, for my 6th site (ai-hug.org), I just focused on the landing page. Get that SEO juice flowing first, you know? Once the traffic starts rolling in, then I'll build out the core features and payment stuff. Actually, I just finished setting up payments and scored my first subscription - 5.9 bucks, baby!
So now, I'm riding this new trend with a Flux site (flux1.one). Same deal - no main features yet. Gonna get those rankings up first, then worry about the rest.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 9.8 ms ] threadThings have been kinda tight money-wise lately, you know? So I figured I'd try my luck overseas and see if I could make a buck or two. That's how I got into this whole website building gig.
This site here? It's my 7th creation. Out of the first 6, three were WordPress jobs - barely any real coding there. The 4th one was a simple static page I cobbled together with JS, HTML, Tailwind, and threw it on the cloud. Just for practice, you know?
For number 5, I jumped on the Next.js bandwagon that everyone's been raving about. Hooked it up to some third-party API to make an auto image expansion site. It hasn't really taken off yet though. Weirdly enough, I added a ton of backlinks, but Google Search Console only picked up on the one from V2EX.
Site number 6? Just recycled the same template.
Now, here's what I've figured out from all this: You don't gotta build out all the fancy features right off the bat. Just slap together a landing page, nail the SEO, and once you're climbing up those Google rankings, then you can worry about adding all the bells and whistles.
Take my previous site (aiexpandimage.org) - I knocked out that landing page in a few hours tops. But the actual features? That took me a good week or two. Right now it's hovering around 64 in Google rankings on average. Gotta keep building those backlinks and getting the word out.
Learning from that, for my 6th site (ai-hug.org), I just focused on the landing page. Get that SEO juice flowing first, you know? Once the traffic starts rolling in, then I'll build out the core features and payment stuff. Actually, I just finished setting up payments and scored my first subscription - 5.9 bucks, baby!
So now, I'm riding this new trend with a Flux site (flux1.one). Same deal - no main features yet. Gonna get those rankings up first, then worry about the rest.
That's the scoop, dude. Pretty wild ride so far!