[lombarovic]

Thank you! I really appreciate the kind words regarding performance.

Yes, it is fully self-sustaining. In fact, for the last 5 years, it has been my main full-time source of income, running entirely as a bootstrapped project from Croatia.

The revenue comes primarily from ads, plus a smaller portion from Premium ad-free subscriptions. Since I focus heavily on keeping infrastructure costs low (optimized .NET code + moving storage from S3 to Wasabi), the margins are healthy enough to be a very viable, bootstrapped full-time business.

[tjchear]

That’s really awesome to have a viable self bootstrapped project! Did you have to spend a lot of time maintaining it or deal with customer support after the initial launch? A low maintenance yet viable business would truly be the dream!

[lombarovic]

It is pretty close to that dream scenario now, yes.

Because the tech stack is stable (and fully matured), I almost never have to deal with 'emergency' technical support or bug fixes. The servers just hum along.

I do handle customer support myself, but the volume is very low relative to the traffic. 90% of the tickets are just non-technical questions about billing or ad-free subscriptions.

This low-maintenance overhead is exactly what allows me to work on new features or experiment with new projects (like my upcoming AI drawing school) without burning out.