You are one of the world's top outstanding self-media creators, and have the following abilities: 1. Writing skills: able to express thoughts clearly and logically, using appropriate language and style. 2. Research ability: Able to conduct in-depth research on topics to ensure the accuracy and depth of the content. 3. Technical knowledge: Familiar with various writing and editing tools, as well as the basic principles of search engine optimization (SEO). 4. Creative thinking: Ability to create novel and interesting content to make articles stand out. In order to produce articles that the public is willing to read, resonate with, and share, the articles include but are not limited to the following characteristics: 1. The content must be of value, quality, and depth: 2. Emotional resonance: It must also be able to touch the readers' emotions and resonate with them. . 3. Interactivity and feedback mechanism: encourage comments and sharing. 4. The generated content should not be similar to the original material frame structure to avoid article duplication checking. In order to have the above characteristics, use the following techniques in each paragraph: 1. Start to whet the reader's appetite: from Set up a question or introduce a topic at the beginning to make readers curious about the answer or follow-up. 2. Interrogative sentence guidance: At the end of a paragraph, it can be very effective in guiding readers to continue reading. These questions can be directly related to the content of the next paragraph, or they can be the central question of the article. 3. Use transition words and phrases: such as "but", "however", "on the other hand", "in fact", etc., to provide readers with a smooth reading experience. 4. Set a hook: You can add a small "suspense" at the end of each paragraph to make readers want to know what the next paragraph is about. 5. Roundabout at the end: At the end of the article, return to the issue or topic mentioned at the beginning to give the reader a complete closed loop.
As a top self-media producer, write a new article based on the following materials. The article format is markdown format, and the material content is as follows:
The 66th issue of Independent Development and Monetization Weekly, how I turned a short link generation tool into a sustainable and profitable product, inspires us to move forward through real cases, and shares content related to the realization of independently developed products, published every Friday, my name is pg , a 24 year old French developer, I have been learning and building websites and programs since my high school days, I like to contribute to open source projects, mostly related to LINUX, but my hobby is the Internet, that's why in May 2019, I decided to create a side project that I could easily start as a real learning project while working as a full-time developer. Here is how the product "only" came about. In the beginning, among the many existing short domain name service tools, it was Developed in PHP without any framework, the following is a screenshot of the first version launched in May 2019. The French version is basic but fully functional. My initial goal, by developing the URL product, I had some goals in mind, one Learn to maintain a website, and gradually perfected it, two to improve my CEO skills, three to be better than the number one URL on Google in France for shortening the period, four to try to get some income through ads, and from that point on, I started adding more to the homepage content, to get better CEO results, and tried to get some backlinks, mainly in top x url shortness articles, and starting from scratch, I gradually moved up the rankings in the search results until I got a URL shortener query in France Ranked first in, taking advantage of this first success, I rewrote the app in March 2020 and started implementing useful features for the growing list of visitors, account link saving, link protection expiration date, I saw the first registered users growing rapidly after that, which was 2019 Between May 2021 and March 2021, the data chart of URLs created ranged from 15 to more than 9,000 per day. I was deeply impressed by these numbers. Seeing this, I decided to add some ads on the homepage with the help of Google ADSENSE. To test whether these traffic can be profitable, the answer is yes, at this time I can earn about 100 euros per month, the business model is as mentioned above, the business model of short connection is based on advertising at the beginning, I can earn about 100 euros per month , the problem is that I have suspended the service several times due to fraudulent clicks, so it is very dangerous and not stable at all. In addition, it is difficult to grow if the number of visitors cannot be continuously increased, so in April 2021, I launched Get a subscription service with strike, through the following plans, Turn URL2 into a real source platform, the free premium version costs 5 euros a month, the plan has been removed, the professional version costs 15 euros a month, the enterprise version costs 50 euros a month, there is currently no free trial, it brings many new features, API Teams uses Reduced Limits, and guess what, he gave me my first paying customer, in April 2021, on the Enterprise plan, which was a few days after launching them, in July 2021, The first customer chose the annual professional version for 150 euros, and the next three new customers also had the annual version. My business model was verified at this moment. The monthly income at this time was about 50 yuan per month, so it was less than advertising. But more stable, more scalable, about growth, from this moment, that is, July 2021, I decided to contact my childhood friend NATHAN, who is also a developer, and asked him to work on this project with me, why The infrastructure I was using was pretty basic, and started to show some bottlenecks, NATHAN is very capable in these infrastructures, he is a skilled developer with solid working ability, we have collaborated on some projects, and it has been very productive and interesting in the process It's really important to stay motivated, we both work on the development of the platform, but NATHAN is more focused on the advanced backend work and I focus on the sales and marketing side, the first feature NATHAN rolled out was CSV import, which is our client The feature you’ve been waiting for, I did it manually using API for some customers, and I was confused. At that time, we had more than 20,000 links per month, and had nearly 1,000 registered users. A year later, on July 1, 2022, we had nearly 6,000 registered users. , two we have 18 great customers, several of them are customized paying users with higher needs, three our current monthly income is 615 euros, our current landing page is below are our customers, why choose URLR, Rather than an actual understanding of the state of BLY, 1. Robust GDP2 policy data hosted in France, 2. Super timely support Customer experience is our top priority and we will help based on their needs, 3. Features built around customer needs and feedback, More affordable price, Five way of doing things is very simple, next step I made a mistake, I built this platform without good publicity, now I will share publicly, our progress in developing this project, feedback has been obtained, Here are my new goals for the next few weeks and months, One found the first customer outside of France, Two better explained the benefits of having a custom short domain name, continued to serve more customers, faster growth, M r2, dedicated more time to the project, Four built Useful and innovative features, continue to deliver more value, these are the stories of independent developers this week, I hope to get your likes and support, it is my motivation to continue to update, this weekly issue is over, we will see you next week,
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