A creator asked her free product's readers for donations on its three-year anniversary and made $1,500 in one day from many small contributions. She runs it alone and says being transparent about needing support is what works.
I got like $1,500 that day.
Oh wow.
Yeah, I could probably ask for reader donations more often. Like every time I have asked, people do it. At the 3-year anniversary mark, I just said, you know, like, it's free, I want to keep it free, and like, we're a really small team, it's pretty much just me most of the time, and you know, your support really makes a difference. And I think I got like $1,500 that day. They were like pretty all pretty small donations, but like a lot of people did it, which is the whole thing.
I mean, that's true for so many creators where they're like, no one's buying my product. It's like, well, have you told them about it? Have you directly asked them to buy it and like, no.
