I make $3k-$5k a month from my newsletter - https://www.startups.fyi - have just under 8K subscribers, mostly startup founders and indie hackers.

Related - Startups.fyi has hundreds of examples of profitable online businesses and side-projects, how much $$$ they earn and more info.

How do you monetize it? Does the profit highly depend on the audience that this newsletter is for?

Glad I could help!

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I've been lazy in uploading them to the site...

That's weird! Just seen. Thanks dude, will remove this.

The website appears to have been shut down, definitely should remove.

Thanks dude!

I've been feeling weird about the design since I launched it, definitely needs a redesign. I've mostly been focused on the newsletter side of things and ignored the website. Thanks for bringing it up - I've pushed it to the top of my todo list.

I'm not the OP, but I thought the design was OK.

One thing I'd suggest removing however is the Product Hunt logo/widget. It's meaningless for people that may find your site via search. They don't care if it was the "Product of the Day" or whatever. Those are mostly for bragging rights in the lean startup community.

Another reason to remove it is because it creates that negative "blogspam" signal in online communities like HN that are familiar with PH. There are lots or barebones websites offering color palettes and CSS gradients and calling themselves "products". Don't turn your website into one of those.

One thing that bothered me is that the images are sort of popping in and causing the layout to shift as you scroll down. If you set a dimensions on the img-tags, it will at least remove the layout shift.

The design looks the same as https://www.billiondollarpitchdecks.com/ both by FlowGenius.co which is where the OP is from, judging by post history. These sites are created using WebFlow (https://webflow.com/) so I'm guessing part of the WebFlow look and feel (no code website builder)

I'm glad you found some sites useful! And appreciate your honesty about the newsletter. I'd love to hear your thoughts about how it could be improved?

Show me one affiliate link you found :)

All of them. Here’s the link on the Omni Calculator “Visit website” button, just one example.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/?ref=insanelyusefulwebsites &utm_campaign=Insanely%20Useful%20Websites &utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

That's a UTM tag that Revue adds automatically - not an affiliate link. Most of these sites are free dude. Take a look next time before jumping to conclusions and calling something junk.

Before jumping to conclusions? On HN?!

The very first “useful website” on the page is a list of the best affiliate programs.

Google and Amazon are free too, also full of ads and affiliate links.

What % commission do you think such "affiliate" gets for a website that doesn't sell anything? It's a UTM tag for Google Analytics

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Thanks so much! Just fixed that.

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