[Journey] $50k/month with a video streaming host

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First off, if you're here to hate on this project, please just keep it to yourself, thanks : )

I decided to create this journey to monitor my progress, and hopefully get some advice from the community. Let's see where this can take me:

Background & Overview:
- In May 2024 I sold my ecommerce store for just shy of $100k USD
- I am not a developer and don't know how to write a line of code
- Video/File host has been in development everyday since May!
- I stumbled across this niche and always wanted to own a "software" company
- Large competitors profit $50k+ a month

End of January Goal: $5k (FAILED)
End of February Goal: $10k (FAILED)
End of March Goal: $20k (Probably will Fail)
End of April Goal: $50k

These are some big (and delusional) goals. It could be possible, I just need to be really smart and work hard.

Here are some of our expenses before launching:
Domain: $11,000 (I regret this, but you live and you learn)
Development: $15,329
Servers: $1,275
Misc: ~$1,000

The issue with not being able to write a line of code, is that I have to wait on developers to finish certain tasks. I have so much motivation to just work 24 hours a day (It has been frustrating waiting for them to finish).

I'm thankful that I have the money to be able to hire these developers, otherwise this journey would come to an end really quickly.


-----We launched on January 1st of this year-----

What are you doing about Legal issues?

I didn't want to own a file host that has to worry about the FBI knocking on my door. And so, we follow all laws, which means we'll have to occasionally take down certain DMCA content.

What are you doing to grow?
Marketing is the biggest task and the most important thing to focus on (besides development & product improvement). At first, I would post a thread on forums, such as WJunction, BHW and others. In other words, I am going to where my target audience is. This has honestly not been that bad, but the growth was a burst at the beginning, and have started to fade out. However, I truly believe the best host, will be used more. So we just have to offer the best product, or the best rates, and we will grow.


Growth/users since launching January 1st:

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Right after launch, I was seeing a lot of traffic, and was happy! However, this all came tumbling down. Most of this traffic was fraudulent. So not only are the numbers above inflated, but it caused all of our ad networks to limit our cpm/revenue because of the fake traffic.

It took a while, but we were able to start detecting fraudulent traffic.

However, there was another major issue......

MASSIVE CHANGE:
Since Development in May 2024, we were using Bunny to stream our videos on our host. This was great quality, but it was EXTREMELY costly. Mainly expensive in terms of bandwidth usage.

This was not profitable at that rate, even if we scaled to large economies of scale.

And so, we decided to switch to using entirely Dedicated Servers with HLS streaming (Which we should've done at first). So not only did I waste $17,000+ but, I also wasted 8 months of my life developing this program using a completely incorrect infrastructure.

It's frustrating, but you live and learn.

What's happening now:
We finally just re-launched using our dedicated servers with HLS streaming. This is great because there are no bandwidth costs, which means our expenses go down drastically. Thus, we can offer higher rates.

My current goal is to offer the highest rates for as long as possible. I have some blackhat ways to obtain really high cpm rates, so maybe these rates can stay forever, we'll see.

But we're here to be a great long-term solution for some of you!

If you made it this far, I appreciate you, thanks! Let's see how big SaveFiles can get :thumbsup:

Here's a link to our official WJunction thread: https://www.wjunction.com/threads/266176/
 
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If you have over 200k visitors and most of them aren’t from countries like India or Indonesia
Yea most are from Tier 4 countries. You missed the part where I said I have a lot of capital to keep this running.

But the goal is to keep growing and get a lot of Tier 1 traffic and just more traffic in general! Thanks for your input anyways :ok_hand:
 
Same journey, but i was losing money and webmaster when video was buffering, eventually i found the best way. first my domain was bestb.stream but i didnt liked this name so i changed it to new which is my favourite
 


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