Transparency links
- Project Scope (start here)
- Running Costs (monthly)
- Milestones (launches, features)
- Building One Page Love Series (videos)
Project Scope:
Before breaking down the costs it will be good to understand the skeleton of the whole project. The post counts are updated in real time.
| Location | Posts | Description |
|---|---|---|
| onepagelove.com | – | One Page Love home page |
| /inspiration | 7557 | Website inspiration (8,000+ curated since 2008 but 500+ removed for various reasons) |
| /templates | 231 | Website templates (free and premium, majority not built by OPL, 600+ removed for quality reasons) |
| /articles | 74 | Website-related articles and round-ups |
Running Costs:
Approximate figures based on recent invoices.
| Cost/mo | Item | Provider | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100 | WordPress Hosting | Flywheel | Shared with Email Love and my personal website. |
| $50 | Image CDN | IMGIX | This is for Retina-optimized review screenshots (example), smaller archive thumbnails (example) and generating snazzy social share images (example). |
| $32 | Analytics | Plausible | Simple and privacy-friendly analytics. |
| $30 | Email Marketing | MailerLite | Managing a few newsletters; Inspiration Only, Templates Only and Landing Pages Unpacked. |
| $29 | Commerce | Lemon Squeezy | Online transactions for a few items on the site like website and template submissions. |
| $25 | Commerce | Gumroad | Online transactions for the Landing Page Hot Tips Ebook. |
| $20 | Video Hosting | Vimeo Pro | Ad-free, customizable and unsharable videos for my courses and round-ups (example) |
| $16 | Template Builder | Webflow | The Webflow Templates built by OPL are built using the platform but I also plan to build some Landing Pages using it for the Ebook, Course, Audit service and more. |
| $15 | Email Marketing | EmailOctopus | Managing the free 100 day Hot Tips Email Drip and the dedicated Ebook newsletter (for future version updates). Gets a welcome email with download links. |
| $15 | Music | Epidemic Sound | Royalty-free music for YouTube videos. |
| $10 | Screencasts | Loom | Landing Page video feedback and audits. |
| $6 | G Suite | One primary acc for [email protected] then have a few aliases. | |
| $5 | Search Plugin | SearchWP | WordPress suggestive AJAX search plugin. Shared with Email Love on the $119/year Pro plan. |
| $4 | Template Builder | Carrd | I’m on the Carrd Pro Plus account at $49/year that allows me to build free Carrd templates (example) but also test other authors templates needing higher Carrd tiers. See Carrd template archive). |
| $2 | Domain & DNS | Hover | Two domains related to this site, average around $30/year. |
| Free | Automation | Zapier | Ebook sale with Gumroad to the dedicated Ebook newsletter (for future version updates). Gets a welcome email with download links. |
| Free | Planning, writing | Notion | Organizing the product road map, bug checklists, curating content, saving screenshots, drafting articles, dabbling with ideas. |
| Free | Code Backups | GitHub | All website changes are tracked here in a private repo. I’m not collaborating with anyone but it’s a great way to log changes if I notice traffic spikes or dips. |
| $359/mo |
For once-off cost software and hardware I use to create content, see my Workspace page over on my personal site.
Building One Page Love series
Behind-the-scenes vids. Please let me know what else you want to see?
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 23.01.2019 | The 2008 moment I thought up One Page Love |
| 31.03.2018 | 3 Lessons Growing OPL from Side Project to Full Time Job |
| 28.03.2018 | How One Page Love monetizes (2018 Edition) |
Useful links
- Submit - beautiful One Page website
- Transparency - behind-the-scenes, running costs, milestones
- Presskit - One Page Love logos, links and info
- [email protected] or @robhope - info, comms, feedback
Milestones
Launches and noteworthy features
| Date | Milestone | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 19.05.2021 | Soft-launch of new 2-column Templates section | Visit |
| 02.09.2020 | Published Landing Page Hot Tips book | Visit |
| 26.05.2020 | Launched 100 Landing Page Hot Tips in 100 days | Visit |
| 28.12.2019 | Soft-launch of Author Profiles | Visit |
| 27.12.2019 | Soft-launch of Typeface taxonomy | Visit |
| 04.09.2019 | Official launch of sister-site Email Love | Blog |
| 30.08.2019 | Suggestive AJAX search now integrated with SearchWP | Visit |
| 22.08.2019 | Soft-launch of design references like team sections | Visit |
| 01.08.2019 | Beta launch of sister-site Email Love | Blog |
| 20.03.2019 | Launch of the One Page Love v3 with new red branding | Blog |
| 13.03.2019 | Archive thumbnails now include longer screenshots | |
| 12.02.2019 | Archives now infinite scroll | |
| 31.03.2018 | OPL turns ten | Blog |
| 31.03.2008 | OPL launches | Screenshots |