What happened after buying my second online business

1 mddanishyusuf 0 8/26/2025, 7:59:46 AM

Last week I bought my second online business, a Chrome extension called SuperDev Pro. It’s basically a bundle of small tools for developers and designers (CSS inspector, font detection, color picker, etc.).

I thought I’d share how the first week went, since I always find these posts useful when others share numbers.

7 day stats: - $4,300 revenue - 7.68k visitors - 150+ lifetime licenses sold - 500 installs - Domain Rating went up +8 (now 15) - Hit #1 on Peerlist of the week

What I actually did: - re-designed the website (it was pretty rough before) - fixed some obvious SEO issues - posted on Peerlist + Reddit, which gave it a traffic boost

Early takeaways: - small acquisitions can gain traction quickly if distribution is right - design/SEO tweaks had a bigger effect than I expected - buying is the easy part, figuring out how to keep it growing is the hard part

Curious if anyone else here has bought small software products — what did your first week/month look like?

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What happened after buying my second online business

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