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by jaredtking 4375 days ago
Thank you. Actually this all started at as a simple web page [1] where you can plug your invoice into the site and get a PDF of your invoice back with no sign up required. I climbed up the search rankings and eventually was getting tons of requests for more features. That is when I decided to make a premium version. Even today a majority of traffic comes through the Upgrade button on the free tool. The second source of major traffic is referrals from existing customers. To date I have spent $0 on advertising and have had virtually zero coverage on tech blogs. I got lucky that my target customer starts out using free invoicing sites.

What app did you create?

[1] http://invoice-generator.com

2 comments

Great service ! Can please share on which hosting to you use , how much many does it cost you monthly? Thanks
Invoiced is hosted on Linode and relies on several other third-party services. I spend ~$110 per month for everything excluding yearly stuff like SSL and domains.
Just sent you an email. :)