Results of having a win-prizes website for nearly 6 months
I wanted to share my thoughts on my vibe-coding website. Turns out, it is my full-time job now. I've been running this website "Zeravo.app " since January and results are better than I expected.
It's a win-prizes website where users play skill-based arcade games, earn points, and use those points toward rewards/prizes (such as Playstation, apple watch and giftcards [p.s. we only have these prizes :D]). Basically, I wanted to build a simple arcade-style rewards platform instead of a boring "sign up and maybe win something" type of site.
I got my first sale 5 days after launching the website. I didn't expect that at all. I thought it was going to take a month to get a sale actually. I had just put the site online, started pushing some traffic to it, and then the first payment came in. That was the moment where it stopped feeling like a random side project and started feeling like something that could actually work. Like a real job.
Over the months, I tested a lot of stuff. Different landing page designs, different rewards, different traffic sources, better game pages, trust elements, and small changes to make the site feel more legit. I have added the screenshots of mine Stripe earnings below.
Biggest thing I learned: people need to understand the offer instantly. If the site looks sketchy or confusing, they leave. If the rewards feel real and the games look fun, some people actually convert.
Still a lot to improve, but getting real sales from a project I built myself has been crazy motivating.
P.S.: This is not the first project I earned money. I did a lot of projects over the years and earned plenty of money. Now I wanted to do something like prize website and it looks good.