Show HN: Readlang – Learn a language while you surf the web
Creator of the Readlang here. I started this at the very end of 2012, and save for a few months contracting have been working on it full time since, doing everything myself. Growth has been slower than I’d like but <i>just enough</i> to keep me motivated.<p>It's a freemium webapp, originally designed to reduce the frustration of practicing my Spanish by reading novels, and later adapted to work on any webpage as a browser extension.<p>I always appreciate it when people share details about their business, so here are some numbers from the first 5 months of 2015 (Jan - May):<p>Google Analytics - Sessions: 120,000, Unique visitors: 53,489<p>Signups - 13,658<p>Revenue - $4768 (average of $953 / month)<p>Not spectacular, but when I look back, it took 16 months to make the first $1000 (<a href="http://steveridout.com/2014/03/22/readlang-my-bootstrapped-language-learning-web-app.html" rel="nofollow">http://steveridout.com/2014/03/22/readlang-my-bootstrapped-l...</a>), and right now it’s making more than that every month! It’s a long road but I’m very excited about it’s future.<p>Any questions or feedback, please fire away!