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Live journey to $500K ARR 22.8% $9.5K $41.7K MRR 1 client · Meta Ads management last sync · today
LIVE DASHBOARD · UPDATED 3 DAYS AGO

The numbers, unfiltered.

Every metric below is real. When a data source isn't wired yet, you'll see when it goes live (not a fake sparkline). Day 7 of 365. Source of truth: /data/dashboard.json.

MRR
$9,500
22.8% of $42K target
1 client · service revenue · manual
Newsletter subs
0
No subs yet
Beehiiv API wires Day 30
Monthly visitors
—
Tracking starts Day 30
Plausible wires Day 30
Tool spend / mo
$565
13 tools · paid monthly · no cap
manual · monthly accounting
Day 7 of 365 · 22.8% to $500K ARR target
$114,000 / $500,000 ARR · 22.8% to target

MRR · weekly

wires on first $1
// current MRR · history pending

Current MRR: $9,500 / mo from 1 client (Meta Ads management — 1 client). That's $114,000 ARR, or 22.8% of the $500K target.

The weekly chart turns on once 3+ months of history exist — a one-month bar lies more than it tells. Product MRR (The 500K Brief sponsorships, Claude Code Mastery) layers on top as it converts.

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Subscribers

all sources
Newsletter 0 wires Day 30
Synapse Circle — Skool · Synapse Circle
Day 90 target · 5,000 newsletter subs
Day 365 target · 25,000 newsletter subs

Top traffic sources

wires Day 30
// tracking starts Day 30

Plausible is collecting from Day 1, but the first 30 days are too volatile to publish honestly (single-day spikes from a tweet would dominate the sample). After 30 days of data, the top-sources breakdown turns on automatically.

The hypothesis: ChatGPT citations + direct + X drive 70%+ of traffic. We'll know in 23 days.

Cost stack · $565 / mo

where every $ goes
Claude Code Max $100
Cloudflare Pages + Workers $5
Domain · 500k.io $8
Beehiiv (free tier) $0
Resend (transactional) $0
Supabase (free tier) $0
Skool (Synapse Circle) $99
Bright Data $49
OpenAI (gpt-image-1, embeddings) $30
Perplexity Pro $20
Misc tooling $74
Decision pending: raise the soft cap to $565 or trim back to $200? Will be answered before Wave D ships.

Recent ships

last 4 entries
2026-05-04 r/Entrepreneur comment hits 37K views — first inbound traffic signal
2026-05-02 First MRR posted: $9,500/mo from 1 Meta Ads client (22.8% to $500K ARR target)
2026-05-02 Schema validation passed (Article + FAQPage + BreadcrumbList nested @graph)
2026-05-01 Day 0 — public phase started, progress strip live
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// methodology

Phase A (now): numbers are hand-stamped from real accounting, Beehiiv UI, Plausible UI, and Stripe (when revenue starts). The JSON file at /data/dashboard.json is the source of truth.

Phase B (Day 30+): a daily cron pulls Stripe MRR, Plausible visits, and Beehiiv subs directly via API, regenerates the JSON, commits, and pushes. Cloudflare Pages auto-rebuilds. Cron script: scripts/swarm-cron/dashboard-sync-daily.sh.

Last sync: Sun, 03 May 2026 23:51:56 GMT (3 days ago).