SimpleSaaS Journal – Month 3 Update (April 2026) 48 apps launched

Starting the first 30 or so really wasn’t that hard. Anyone can come up with a few ideas and spin them into new businesses pretty quickly. My real headache has been in website analytics and tracking. I am not sure how close I am to solving it now. There are tons of tools that are perfectly suited to tracking one web app with full trackable metrics. Posthog is fantastic, Google Analytics is great. When you have dozens of assets you are tracking things get a bit more difficult. Add to that the ever present bot traffic on any website and then you have to add a Javascript trigger to only record the “real” traffic.

For any that are keeping track of why my APP's LANUCHED keeps changing is that I take them on and off pretty frequently. My total apps launched is closer to 64 not 48. Most of them are in an incomplete but holding pattern online so I can still watch them for traffic. If i see the traffic spike you can bet I will be developing them immediately. I just make sure that the marketing/landing pages are complete before I put all of them on a public domain. Might as well add that baited hook to the water and see if anyone bites. 

Also, getting 3 hours into a project you are enjoying just to realize that it probably is not going to work is very irritating. I had a Classic movie viewer I was really getting into until I realized that the open source library I was pulling them from was super laggy. So I just cut my losses and walked away.

One of my favorite apps I built LearnbyLiterature.com was a foreign language read along application that used AI narration and translation with classic literature to teach you how to speak a foreign language. It WORKED!! and I am still playing with it as I think it is just fun. I do still need to develop the karaoke type word timing to grey out the spoken words. I stopped working on it ( and will likely circle back later) because fully developing it is outside the scope of the project as a whole at this point.

SimpleSaaS depends on hundreds of micro-saas businesses being launched between now and Christmas. I am fully expecting that well over half will die on the vine, leaving maybe 15-20% of the apps making any money at all. I am just 2 months into the project so about half way through the search engine sandbox period for the first apps. Then I am expecting around a .02-.06% sign up rate from search results.

I am basing everything on portfolio mathematics. Basically, I launch 1 app per day. That app enters a 120 day dead-zone of search engine sandbox while it is indexed. After that I am expecting around .01% to .05% ”ish” sign up rate from the search results. Right now I am running a $24 average subscription rate. Industry averages are about a 5-10% churn rate.

Im only paying $11 per domain name, $77 a week. My Cloudflare workers cost about $10 a month for all my infrastructure needs. So, why wont this work. Simply put, traffic. I am competing against PPC advertising and the front page of Google. Even getting below the fold on page 1 of google lowers your click-through rate to just a tiny fraction of the the top spots. Also, search engines are starting to die and being replaced by AI. Many of the things I do can be replaced by AI now but not easily. Another 3 years of development and who knows what will be possible.

Will I go broke? I doubt it. Will I be partying in Monaco with Russian hookers and coke? Also very doubtful lol… Sounds fun though ( The old Marine Sergeant in me just giggled) but here in the real world and my based assumptions is that I might end up stumbling blindly into one or two apps that make somewhere in the 5-10k MRR range eventually. Like over the next two to three years.

The real gamble is competition on low traffic boring business keywords. This is the real issue. I am chasing things that few people search hoping that some HR manager somewhere just happens to be searching for a replacement for their Excel spreadsheet they don’t really know how to use. That is the market I am going after. I know the market is there, but is it enough to be worth chasing?