For almost 9 months I was just working on CountdownShare, improving it, doing SEO and hoping people would use it. In the beginning it was actually a completely different idea. I had multiple small countdown and timer related tools and my plan was simple. Get traffic from Google, run ads and hopefully make some money from the traffic. But the reality was pretty bad. I was making around $0.20 to $0.34 per day from Google Ads. My server was costing me more than what the site was earning. At some point I started looking at how people were actually using the product and realised there might be a better market. Some people were using countdown timers on their websites and inside emails for sales, launches, events and campaigns. That looked much more useful than just someone making a birthday cou