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I’ve been building a little side project in my spare time called Kage , a gallery of real product interfaces that developers can browse and turn into prompts for AI coding tools. It’s been growing steadily through organic traffic, and recently I decided to see whether I could actually monetise it beyond just having a nice project in my portfolio. I put together a basic sponsorship page with some traffic stats and started cold emailing companies I thought might be interested in reaching developers. AI was useful here for researching and drafting the message to each. I reached out to around 50 companies. Most didn’t respond, a few conversations went nowhere, but Beehiiv agreed to sponsor the site for two weeks. It’s not life-changing money, but I’m very happy about having a company pay to be featured on something you’ve built entirely yourself. A couple of things I learned - Having actual traffic numbers made the pitch much easier. Targeting companies whose customers overlap with your audience makes more sense than emailing everyone. - You don’t necessarily need a huge audience to start approaching sponsors. - Cold emailing is pretty demoralising until somebody actually says yes. - The next challenge is figuring out whether sponsorships can become a repeatable source of revenue rather than just a one-off. - Curious if anyone else here has monetised a side project through sponsorships rather than subscriptions or ads? How did you go about finding sponsors consistently? Hope the tips are helpful!   submitted by   /u/bustyLaserCannon [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/18 19:52:02