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Mohit Patel
Mohit Patel

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๐Ÿš€ I Almost Quit My Side Project After Seeing โ€œ0 Usersโ€

A few weeks ago, I launched a small side project with multiple free online tools.

I thought:
โ€œPeople will definitely use this.โ€

Reality?

๐Ÿ“‰ 0 users
๐Ÿ“‰ 0 clicks
๐Ÿ“‰ Almost no traffic

That part honestly hurt more than building the project itself.

So instead of quitting, I started learning:

SEO
Google Search Console
Page optimization
Internal linking
Better content writing

Slowly, things started changing.

Yesterday I finally saw:
โœ… 1,000+ impressions in Google Search Console

Still small.
But for the first time, it feels like real progress ๐Ÿš€

I wrote the full story here:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://medium.com/@patelmohitp0/i-almost-quit-my-side-project-after-seeing-0-users-36641364c1d5

Would love feedback from other developers building side projects ๐Ÿ™Œ

webdev #buildinpublic #seo #nextjs #programming

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