The repeatable growth playbook behind two APIs making $5K a month
A ’s sixth product effort now includes two API businesses earning about $5,000 a month combined. SocialKit, which collects public data, has more than 18,500 users and makes about $3,300 per month. PostPeer, an API for publishing posts, is three months old and has reached about $1,700 in MRR.
Earlier products included CaptureKit, sold for $15,000, and LectureKit, sold for $7,000, while another product failed. The main growth method is to start SEO on day one by publishing one or two useful articles each week and building separate pages for features, use cases, and competitor comparisons. Customer search terms and trends guide the creation of written guides and matching video tutorials.
Free tools, such as a YouTube transcript extractor, attract search traffic and turn some visitors into customers. Competitor and alternative pages can appear in regular search results and in ChatGPT or Perplexity recommendations, which have produced .
Key points
- The two active API products make about $5,000 per month combined.
- SEO work begins on launch day, with one or two relevant articles published each week.
- Each feature, use case, and suitable customer search gets its own helpful page or guide.
- Written tutorials are paired with videos, and free tools bring in search visitors.
- Competitor can attract customers through s and .