How I Made $1M dollars in 3 years blogging
Published in 2015, this chronicle by @wnm details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing. Key verified financial milestone: $1M.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Charging customers from day one acts as the ultimate filter for building software that solves genuine, high-urgency problems.
Keeping fixed overhead low and leveraging lean infrastructure allows founders to stay alive until market tailwinds kick in.
Small, repetitive improvements in customer retention and conversion rates yield massive returns over multi-year horizons.
Community Debate Themes:
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
CATEGORY Bootstrapping & MRR →
HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE 20 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 0 comments
I don't understand all the negative comments here. I read the article and it sounds legit to me.
The important part is that he didn't stop at one site like many people do. Once he saw a significant (to him) income from one site he was able to multiply the success and scale his revenue by hiring people smarter than him in their respective areas of focus.
Howe many people have seen online "success" with a couple-hundred dollars per month and stopped there, treating it as a hobby that pays a bill or two. This guy went big, and I have nothing but respect for that.
His is an increasingly rare form of success:
Comparable sites trafficked by SEO, in the last 5 years specifically, have undergone a slaughter in the rankings.
It's another world, a very difficult one, and I think he'll have some difficulty with FindATutor organically.
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... I had more than one hundred sites. I hired a tech guy to manage my sites... I hired a couple of writers to write the content for all my sites, I hired a few sales guys to manage... social media management, SEO link sales, copy writing tasks and advertising
So it doesn't sound like he made $1M from his travel blog as the title suggests.
Ever noticed these guys all just setup blogs about how to blog and make money while traveling? Which of them is actually setting up blogs that aren't about this topic? It seems like a big ponzi scheme.