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I've been building templates for 2 months, shipped 4, made $0 - here's everything I learned
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I've been building templates for 2 months, shipped 4, made $0 - here's everything I learned

DEV Community·Mohammad Shohag·6 months ago
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Wanted to share an honest update on what I've been building because I think a lot of people here can relate.

I'm a full stack developer from Bangladesh. Two months ago I launched rayso.studio — a marketplace for Next.js + Sanity CMS templates. The idea was simple: build clean, production-ready templates for SaaS, restaurants, real estate and sell them to founders and businesses.

What I shipped in 2 months:

A free SaaS landing page template (Next.js + Sanity + Resend + Tailwind)

A restaurant website template

A real estate website template

A hotel & resort booking template (with Supabase for real availability logic)

The analytics after 2 months:

141 visitors this month

48% bounce rate

3m 23s average session duration

Top traffic: US (27%), Bangladesh (21%), India (19%)

Sales: $0

What I think went wrong:

Honestly I was so focused on building that I did almost zero marketing. I posted maybe 2-3 times total and thought traffic would just come. It didn't.…

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