When I started writing this daily journal, nobody read it because I never really talked about it. I just wrote every day and I still liked the fact that it was public.

But over the last month, it's started to get some traction. I've been checking up on analytics, and even after the massive traffic of the Hacker News posts and $1K MRR update, the blog is now getting almost 1k page views per day!

The fact that I keep checking these analytics is bad (for me). I fear that optimizing my journal entries for views defeats the purpose of this thing, and it will make my writing worse, or less honest. Lately, I've also felt some more pressure now to deliver a great post every day.

I also think about some of the people that (I know) read this, and think things like "What will X think when they read it"? That is very bad for me.

However, I would be lying if I said that I didn't want people to read this. I would be lying if I said I didn't like that lots of people read it.

People reading it is a motivation for me to do it every day. If it were private, I probably wouldn't keep up with it. Part of the reason for that is probably my ego, and also, I want people to follow the journey, get inspired, and (one day) look back at 4-5 years of journal entries and see what it takes to build a successful business.

So, I won't be taking this private but I will be removing the analytics. I also won't be doing anymore self-promotion other than for milestones and stuff like that. If people read something and love it, they can share it (and I love that).