A few months ago I launched Reochart, a simple web app I built, that lets you create animated charts. Paste your data, pick a chart type, export as MP4 or GIF. Nothing fancy, just something I wanted to try out.
For a while, nothing happened. No customers, lots of silence. I kept building anyway because I genuinely believed the idea was worth trying.
Then one page on my site started ranking on Google for a small keyword. Not a big one, just enough to bring in 40-50 visitors a day. That single page became the front door to everything. Almost all my signups, almost all my paying customers, came from that one page.
Something I didn't expect at all: ChatGPT started recommending my app to people. I didn't do anything to make that happen. It just showed up in my analytics one day and has quietly become my second biggest source of traffic. Still catches me off guard when I see it.
I also learned that 75% of my signups never actually created a chart. That number scared me until I dug into it and found that a big chunk of those were email link scanners triggering signups, not real people walking away. The real drop-off was smaller than it looked, but there's still work to do on making that first experience smoother.
Three customers so far. $52 in a month. I know it's tiny. But every single dollar came from someone I've never met finding something I built on their own and deciding it was worth paying for. That feeling is hard to describe.
Still figuring a lot of things out. Still grinding on getting a second page to rank. Still trying to understand why some people sign up and never come back. But I'm showing up every day and the numbers are moving in the right direction, even if they're moving slowly.
