24 May 2016
Josh

Existing monthly, December 2015-March 2016

We've been very slack and had stopped taking records and writing reports for a while there. Because we weren't collecting stats at the end of each month, it's very hard to go back and get accurate numbers on things like active users (because we delete a user entirely when they close their account, for example) so not only will this be a brief recap, it'll be missing the numbers it wasn't possible to collect. From April we'll have some automated user stats collecting in place.

Exist

In December we launched the new mood tab with mood-specific stats and a calendar interface for tracking your mood ratings and notes, and added workout data from Runkeeper and other integrated services that support it. In January we added heart rate from those services also.

Belle launched the Apple Health integration for our iOS app in February, and I provisioned a second server to separate our backend task queues and database from the web server. As we're still not earning much from Exist, I've been trying to keep costs low, but the addition of a second, much more powerful server has given us better performance and more room to grow.

Larder

Larder is a bookmarking service for developers, and our second paid product. We started working on it in February, and had it ready for beta testing by early March. Most major features were completed in March, including the web client, bookmarklet, GitHub integration, tag autocompleting, bulk edit, and the all-important ability to upgrade from a free trial to a paid account. We soft-launched Larder at the end of March, but didn't yet put much effort into marketing while we worked on adding browser extensions.

Other business stuff

With the addition of Larder as a second product to manage, we decided to halt any further development on Littlelogs. As a community it is still small, but active, and we're content to leave it that way while we concentrate on becoming self-sufficient through selling our other products.

Numbers

Exist business stats
December January February March
Income $2,946.17 $3,078.68 $3,667.57 $3,327.02
Exist site stats
December January February March
Landing page traffic 3,194 4,263 5,235 4,200
Blog traffic 25,591 31,118 24,206 22,045
Top post traffic 16,553 16,634 10,160 9,205

Our top post remained "How does your tracker know you're asleep?".