I got a sale from AppSumo launch, after calculating I got only 22% of the revenue, that is $11, so for $11 I have to serve this customer forever, it might not be that bad, as more users might bring more users later (Product led growth), Anybody got 100s of sales from the listing?
My Feedback survey tool mapster .io i build for 6 months, with few 100 MRR, got approved to list on AppSumo. I tried 3 times before but only got accepted this time, might be because the product is well polished now. Based on other founder listings I remember it might bring 10s of thousands in sales, wish me luck!
Let's hope VCs don't stop subsidising tokens. If Anthropic goes public, then we will be subsidising ourselves for a while. Even the people who don't know who Anthropic is will be subsidising, cause everyone has 401k or similar contributions parked into index funds by the fund managers.
SEO work I did for my feedback tool does not bring much clicks yet due to low DR but it did give me good keyword ideas to test google ads with.
If you get clicks with SEO, try experimenting Google ads on the same or related keywords, you never know few of those keywords might bring high intent search users.