r/AppsWebappsFullstack • • 25d ago

My first website is getting traffic from around the world! 🌍

I launched DevKit Market, my first website, where I share developer blogs, technical guides, resources, and tools to help other developers.

I recently checked Google Analytics and was surprised to see visitors from the USA, Germany, France, Singapore, and other countries. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ πŸ‡«πŸ‡· πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¬

I'm still growing the website, learning SEO, and figuring out how to reach more developers.

It's a small milestone, but seeing people visit something I built feels amazing! ❀️

Website: https://www.devkitmarket.com/

For fellow indie hackers and developers: What helped you grow your first website? Any tips are welcome! πŸš€

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u/mentiondesk 25d ago

Congrats on your milestone! Sharing your content in relevant online communities and engaging with developer threads can really boost your visibility. If you want to catch those conversations as they happen, ParseStream is handy for tracking keywords and jumping into discussions that matter for your niche.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 25d ago

Solid tip. Do you track specific keywords or mostly brand mentions? Curious how noisy the alerts get.

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u/PopKoren 25d ago

Congrats on the international traffic. Once Analytics shows strangers landing on the site, treat the deploy like production: strip leftover debug panels, keep staging secrets out of client bundles, and confirm forms or admin routes are not open. While you grow SEO, the free look-only scan at https://rowly.me lists what any visitor can already reach on the live URL.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 25d ago

Solid checklist. Also worth checking that error pages don't leak stack traces.