My SaaS got only 62 clicks from Google in its first month. But ChatGPT and Perplexity have already started recommending it.

So. Everyone writes when they become millionaires. I`ll write too, of course. But for now, I’ll note down the results of RiverScript ’s (an AI app that captures and transcribes system audio on Windows and Mac and files up to 50 GB) first month of work for myself.

Let me remind that it has no advertising and is promoted entirely organically, so its gradual progress will be interesting to people like me – those who build and launch a project on their own.

In its first month of existence, the riverscript.com website received just over 1,000 impressions in Google so far. And 62 clicks, some of which were my own. Google is still only getting a taste of the site and placing rare materials in local languages in search results, and even for the branded query the site sometimes disappears from search results – that’s okay, it will stop soon.

At the same time, the application was listed on dozens of websites and directories, with a certain amount of creativity, so also in some not entirely ordinary places. It got its first links and mentions.

In the first month, 33 users registered, most of whom did not use the product, but that is normal for the first visitors. Some, of course, did use it, and the first scammer even appeared, who created five free accounts in a row and decided to farm transcription hours this way. For which he was successfully banned both by account and by IP address altogether.

I consider this a success, because the user clearly needed my service and successfully reached the paywall. Had he been from a more prosperous country, perhaps he would have become the first paid subscriber.

Those are some unimpressive stats, at first glance. In reality, everything is going more than according to plan. Because I created a small SEO factory, and it is actively working.

With the help of some tools, I conduct SEO research for free, with the help of my own script I collect keyword autocomplete suggestions from Google, and I also write articles by hand. Then, with the help of another script of mine, I translate the articles into 14 languages of first-world countries and publish them.

This is quite a slow pace, and in July only 8 articles were written and published – 2 per week. But they are very high-quality, hit the keywords, including ones that are not particularly difficult to rank for, and should work very well.

And since they are in 14 languages, that makes as many as 112 separate pages for indexing. Pretty cool for the first month, in my opinion.

And, by the way, the site has already received its first rare visits from AI recommendations – 1 visitor came from Perplexity and 4 came from ChatGPT. That is what matters most today, actually.

We keep fucking grinding. In the second month, I hope for results several times higher than in the first.