First Month Building Small Projects on My Personal Site

It has actually been almost two months already. If I exclude the initial learning period, that leaves a bit more than one month of real execution, roughly keeping a pace of one small project per week. I started from being completely unfamiliar with the whole process, and now I more or less understand the end-to-end flow. Traffic-wise, though, there is not much to show yet — maybe it simply needs time.

The first project was purely an experiment, inspired by the classic [don't click]. It was just a single-page site in a similar style. Unsurprisingly, the results were pretty average, but I also did not set high expectations for it.

The second project was a small browser game hub. I followed advice that “games are easier to get traffic” and targeted keywords around unblocked games. At first I collected games manually from GitHub, and only later did I manage to get an embeddable games list directly from publishers. There were a few twists along the way, and when the site finally went live I had some hopes for it — but performance has still been underwhelming. Realistically, if the game list is that easy to obtain, anyone can build a similar site.

On the operations side, I have invested very little time so far. I almost did not build backlinks or do any serious promotion, which is clearly something I need to fix going forward.

The remaining projects are more or less in the same category; I will probably introduce them in future posts when I have more data points.

For the next project, I want to try building a small SaaS product. The exact direction is still under consideration, but I am looking forward to exploring it — wish me luck.