I Just Went Full Time On My Side Project That I Grew To 2.5M Visitors

August 31st, 2022

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Ruurtjan Pul

Founder, nslookup.io

$500

revenue/mo

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nslookup.io

nslookup.io

from Ede

started September 2019

$500

revenue/mo

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Employees

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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hi! I’m Ruurtjan Pul, and I run a small portfolio of web tools. My two most successful projects so far are a DNS lookup tool and an ISP checker. Combined, they have about 250k monthly unique users.

In February this year, I quit my job to work full-time on these projects. They still don’t make enough profit to make a living, but I’m giving it at least until the end of the year. NsLookup currently makes around $500 a month, and I’m looking for a partner to exclusively sell ads to.

What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

Entrepreneurship has always interested me, even if I didn’t realize it at a young age. I ran a monthly single-page school tabloid with a friend at the age of 10, which we sold for — if I recall correctly — €0,01 each.

Around the same time, I tried to make a flash game aggregation site. Remember those? With only rudimentary knowledge of HTML and a bit of PHP, I never managed to launch it. But looking back now, it’s...

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