I Started A Movie Website For Fun As A Teenager. Now, My Website Brings In 450K Visitors/Month
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?
I’m Jon Sandys, and I started the website Movie Mistakes back in 1996 when I was 17, the wild west days of the internet. It didn’t start with the intention of being a profitable business, just a side project to teach myself HTML while I was in school, but as its popularity grew I realized there was potential there. Primarily in showing adverts, but also offering paid memberships and selling books. From about 2002 it’s been my full-time job.
The site’s mainly of interest to moviegoers, but also lists TV shows and even games. Some people get really into it and are keen to spot everything they can, others come to the site because they think they saw something wrong, google it, and end up on my doorstep. Or indeed just because they’re interested in more general movie trivia. I count myself incredibly lucky to have created something which allows me to be my boss and work my hours while reading and writing about things that interest me. The site currently gets around 450,000 visitors a month, bringing in over $3,000 a month in ad revenue.
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