Iszuddin Ismail ๐ฒ๐พ
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Iszuddin Ismail ๐ฒ๐พ
@iszuddin
Building FiraForm with Laravel. Yet another headless form backend.











๐ Sold Iconbuddy for $30,000. 2.5 years ago, I bought it from @fayazara for $4,000. No revenue. No traffic. Nothing. That $4,000 was literally all I had in my bank. Here's the journey: โ Launched on PH, Twitter, HN, Reddit โ It blew up. People loved it โ Tried sponsor slots for monetization. Didn't work well โ Users kept asking for plugins โ Built Figma, VS Code, Framer plugins โ Added a $49 lifetime deal โ Finally, real money started coming in โ Bought the .com domain for $4k to build trust โ Increased price to $89. People still paid โ Built a second site targeting "free svg icons" keyword for $10 โ Grew it to 350k+ pageviews โ Redirected all traffic into IconBuddy โ Everyone said I was crazy โ 45 days later, Iconbuddy ranked for all those keywords โ Grew to 100k+ users โ All organic. $0 on ads โ Made $50k+ in revenue running it solo โ Now sold to @julianengel for $30k A $4k bet turned into $80k+ in 2.5 years. My 10th exit. Buy small, build smart, sell at the right time. Repeat.

BREAKING: A Palestinian child has been shot dead by Israeli forces in his tent in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza. ๐ด LIVE updates: aje.news/7h0jd8





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