u/oh_my_god_13

Quick update for the people following this journey.

After making my first sales through my website (around €800 in the first month), I decided to make the next big move:

Amazon.

Honestly, I hesitated for a while.

Part of me didn’t want to compete in such a huge marketplace.

The other part kept thinking:

“If this product has potential, I need to test where the customers actually are.”

So I went for it.

I created the listing.

Worked on the keywords.

Optimized the title.

Tweaked the description.

And most importantly…

I invested in high-quality Amazon product images.

Not random pictures taken on an iPhone.

Real visuals designed to increase conversions, explain the product better, and make the listing look more premium and trustworthy.

Because on Amazon, I quickly realized something:

People judge your product in about 2 seconds.

If your listing looks amateur?

You lose.

So I put real effort into it.

I also made the decision to price the product at $19.90.

Not too cheap.

Not too expensive.

I wanted it to feel premium while still staying affordable enough for people to try it.

And then…

The orders started coming in.

Slowly at first.

Then faster.

And eventually, I crossed my first big milestone:

$2,000 in sales on Amazon.

I’m not going to lie…

Seeing those numbers felt crazy.

Because not that long ago, this was literally just an idea in my head after coming back from Thailand.

Now strangers were buying it every day.

But here’s the reality nobody talks about:

Amazon is brutal 😂

Because along with the sales came something I wasn’t emotionally ready for:

Reviews.

Some people loved it.

Some people left amazing comments.

People saying they would reorder.

That the product quality was great.

That the packaging looked professional.

Honestly, those reviews felt amazing.

But…

I also got bad reviews.

And wow.

Nobody prepares you for how personal that feels when it’s your product.

At first, I took it badly.

I overthought everything.

“Did I mess up?”

“Is the product actually bad?”

“Should I stop?”

But after calming down, I realized something important:

Feedback is part of the game.

Good or bad.

You improve.

You adjust.

You learn.

So I started paying attention.

Reading every comment.

Improving things where I could.

Trying to understand what customers actually wanted.

And for the first time, I started feeling like this wasn’t just a side project anymore.

It started feeling like a real business.

Still small.

Still fragile.

But real.

Next step?

Scaling.

Improving conversions.

Testing ads.

And trying to see if this thing can grow bigger than I originally imagined.

I’ll keep documenting the wins, failures, numbers, stress, mistakes… all of it.

Because trust me:

This entrepreneurial journey looks way messier behind the scenes than Instagram makes it seem 😅

Quick update for the people who read my first post.

Back in my last post, I talked about taking a risk on my first international food product order.

Around €3,000 invested, ordering outside Alibaba, no supplier protection, no guarantees.

Honestly?

I was stressed.

Like checking emails every 30 minutes stressed 😂

But… it worked.

The shipment arrived by air freight.

No scam.

No disaster.

No “your package is lost somewhere forever” situation.

I actually received the products.

Holding those first packages in my hands felt surreal.

For months, this thing only existed in my head.

Now it was real.

I had worked on the packaging design, and honestly, I’m proud of how it turned out. It looks way better than I imagined at the start.

I also made sure to source from an organic supplier, which mattered a lot to me, so I added the organic certification logo to the packaging.

At that moment, it finally started feeling like an actual brand instead of “just an idea.”

Then came the hard part:

Building the website.

Writing product pages.

Learning SEO.

Writing articles.

Trying to get traffic without throwing thousands into ads.

A lot of late nights.

A lot of second-guessing.

A lot of “Is anyone even going to buy this?”

But eventually…

The website launched.

And then something crazy happened:

The first orders came in.

I still remember the notification.

It sounds stupid, but seeing that first order hit felt unreal.

Like… someone I don’t know actually trusted my product enough to spend money on it.

That feeling is hard to explain.

By the end of the first month, the website had made around €800 in sales.

Now before anyone says:

“That’s not life-changing money.”

I know.

Trust me 😂

But for me, this isn’t about becoming rich overnight.

It’s proof.

Proof that strangers are willing to buy.

Proof that maybe this idea actually has potential.

Proof that I might not be completely crazy for trying this.

Next step?

Amazon.

I’m getting the product listed there to see if I can scale this thing and reach people beyond my website.

No idea where this goes from here.

Maybe it crashes.

Maybe it grows.

But for the first time in a long time, I genuinely feel like I’m building something.

I’ll keep documenting everything here — the wins, mistakes, numbers, problems, all of it.