Hello beautiful folks,
A year ago today, on 27th June 2025, I hit publish on my first ever post, "Advice to My Future Self." I had zero plan. I just wanted to write something and see what happened.
What happened was... a lot, actually. So instead of writing another reflective post about life lessons, I am doing something different this time. I am opening up the actual stats. The good, the bad, the "wait, that flopped?" The whole messy scoreboard of one year of blogging.
But first, the most important part: Thank You So So So Much. To everyone who read a post, liked one, left a comment, or even just clicked and scrolled for ten seconds. None of this happens without you.
The Numbers, Real Quick:
Here's where we landed after 365 days:
- 50 posts published
- 13,888 total views
- 232 likes
- 8 dislikes (honestly, not bad)
- $2.14 USDC earned in tips
Averaging around 278 views per post. Not viral. Not nothing either. Just steady, honest engagement, one post at a time. And only 8 dislikes across an entire year tells me you all are kind even when you disagree with me. I appreciate that more than you know.
My Best Post, By a Mile:
There's a clear winner this year and it's "What a Year of Journaling Taught Me," published on 24 April 2026. It crushed every single metric:
- 660 views, more than double my average
- 17 likes, my highest ever
- $0.17 earned in tips, also my highest ever
- Just 1 dislike
The Moment Things Clicked:
Okay, this is my favorite part of digging through the data. On 19 April 2026, my post "What Travel Teaches You" earned $0.14. That doesn't sound like much, but it was the first time I'd ever cracked double digits in cents. Before that, my best ever was $0.09, and I'd hit that wall twice without breaking through.
I sat right under that ceiling for almost 4 months. Lots of $0.01s and $0.02s, the occasional good $0.07 day. Then suddenly, in the span of 5 days, I beat my own record twice. "What Travel Teaches You" hit $0.14, and then "What a Year of Journaling Taught Me" blew past it at $0.17.
Mid April 2026 was the real turning point of my whole year, even if I didn't notice it at the time. That's roughly when I stopped writing generic posts and started writing real ones. You noticed before I did.
The Post That Humbled Me:
Not every post is a winner and I think it's only fair to own that too. "Generic Advice," published 30 March 2026, is my lowest performing post by views, sitting at just 58 views against my average of 278. Looking at the title now, I get it. Even I would have scrolled past that one.
A bunch of my early posts from July and August 2025 sat around the $0.01 mark too. Nothing wrong with them, I just hadn't found my voice yet. We all start somewhere, and mine started pretty quietly.
To Everyone Who Showed Up:
Thanks a ton for the 13,888 views. Thank you for 232 likes, including the 17 of you who showed up hardest for that journaling post. Thank you very much for every cent of that $2.14 USDC, because the currency was never really the point, your attention was.
And to whoever left a comment on a post that didn't do great, just to say it meant something to them anyway, that one stuck with me more than any number on this list.
Here's to year two. No idea what post 100 will look like yet, but if this year proved anything, it's that the posts I am nervous to publish are usually the ones you end up loving most.
See you in the comments ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍
