I had to do a similar thing for my gif maker https://gifmemes.io when I've tried monetization through ads. Luckily for my users, the revenue was less than 10% of what it makes through watermark removal sales, so I've removed ads and dummy content all together. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

My biggest side projects come from being almost mad that a certain project does not exist. For example, I've seen a lot of gif memes on the internet, in which the text was always very badly jumping around and it was very difficult to make them. So I've spent a few hundreds of hours making https://gifmemes.io. (actually as my bc. Project :D) Another project I'm working on right now comes from my frustrations with... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

My favorite job interview was when we just talked about my project: https://gifmemes.io most of the time. Got the job. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

My GIF making site https://gifmemes.io made over 1k, totally maybe >5k at this point from watermark removals and donations. What was crucial for growth was a few reddit frontpage memes with the link in the comments. Then just slow and steady google traffic increase and now it's stable for the past few months. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

No gif skills, I used https://gifmemes.io/ which has motion tracking. Source: about 1 year ago

That's why I've added trial tracking to https://everlint.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

If you export your transactions to a CSV file, you can use https://everlint.com to analyze it for subscriptions. Source: over 2 years ago

Never forget an autorenewing subscription again: https://everlint.com Hosted on a simple Debian Linux VPS with https://tilaa.com. Running nginx with Let's Encrypt certs. Built in Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL for the database and Stimulus as JavaScript framework. Charts are generated with ChartJS and CSS is using Bulma framework. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago