> Can you talk about how you advertise and got traction enough to get to $500/month?
Pure dumb luck. I made the site to scratch my own itch many years ago, and then it took off because there were few similar sites at the time (that let you mix together different sounds). Only promotion I did was mention the site on reddit a few times. Users were prepared to tolerate a lot of rough edges at first.
There has been zero advertising. The site gets a regular influx of new users because it's been featured on a number of discover-interesting-website portals (the modern versions of StumbleUpon). This happened with no input from me. I assume it's a good match for these kinds of portals because it's immediately usable without any kind of instruction, signup etc.
I only made the decision to monetize after a long period of the site getting lots and lots of organic traffic with no input from me.
Can you talk about how you advertise and got traction enough to get to $500/month?