I don't know if it's luck, but since last week. I've had way more motivation and money is actually starting to flow in! About 3-4 months ago I built dubaidiscoverer.com in Lovable - took me forever to figure out that Lovable doesn't have SSR and will never get indexed by Google properly. I wrote a Reddit post about it that blew up and even Lovable's CEO replied to it.
Spent several days migrating from Vite to Next.js to boost my Google rankings - but honestly, all that effort was for nothing. Google results are still dead, and I was basically ready to abandon the whole thing since I have other projects going on.
Then out of nowhere today I get a notification that someone bought Dubai attraction tickets through my affiliate link and I made $10.50. No clue how it happened but someone actually bought something even though I'd already written the project off as a loss.
It's still pennies and doesn't even cover the domain cost - but maybe it'll motivate some of you. Sometimes things work out even when you think they're completely dead.
Honestly, I'd probably sell this project for pocket change at this point because I have zero ideas left for it. It's just directories about Dubai and Abu Dhabi attractions - nothing fancy.
I know it would sound better if I said my dead project made $1000 passively, but I hope this was at least an interesting read for you guys.
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