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1,000 True Fans | The Sell Digital Products Experiment
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1,000 True Fans | The Digital Product Experiment π djangify.com
In 2008, Kevin Kelly - founding editor of Wired - wrote something that stuck me: a creator doesn't need millions of followers to make a living. They need 1,000 people who genuinely care spending $100 a year to build a six figure business.
I've spent years building things. Good things. And I've watched the money leak out anyway - platform fees on every sale, marketplace algorithms burying products on page 42, accounts deleted overnight with no warning and no appeal.
But I kept building.
In January 2026 I finished Djangify - an independent storefront I built for myself so I could stop renting space from platforms that take a cut of everything and own none of it. Clean shop. Built-in blog. No transaction fees. No platform algorithm deciding if I get seen today. Although I still need to work with the search engines algorithm who decide that!
In May 2026, I opened it to the public. And now I'm running the experiment in public too.
Every traffic strategy I try. Every SEO move. Every piece of content data. What worked, what completely failed, what I'm trying next β all of it documented here, honestly, so you don't have to figure it out alone.
This isn't a course. I don't have the finished answers. I'm doing the thing in real time, and you're welcome to watch, take what works, and build alongside me.
The goal is simple: get my main site Inspirational Guidance to 1,000 true fans no matter how long it takes and note how much that provides in terms of income.
You only need one site to do this.
If you've got a Djangify storefront and want to do the same thing follow along.
If you don't have an independent shop yet, you can launch one at djangify.com in about five minutes.
Who This Is For
The Exploited Creator
You're watching money disappear out of every sale - listing fees, transaction cuts, payout deductions - and wondering why a digital product business that should work, doesn't quite add up. It's not your products. It's the maths of building on someone else's platform.
The Digitally Excluded Creator
Your account was flagged, suspended, or removed. No human reviewed it. No appeal went anywhere. You lost your shop, your customer list, and your income in the same automated email. The platform didn't care because you were never their priority. You were their inventory.
The Invisible Creator
You're showing up, creating, posting - and getting buried on page 42 next to three million other sellers while the platform recommends cheaper competitors on your own product page. You're not invisible because your work isn't good enough. You're invisible because their algorithm was never designed to make you visible.
The Sovereign Business Owner
You're done building your house on someone else's land. You want an audience you can actually reach, a storefront you actually own, and income that doesn't depend on a platform deciding you've earned it today.
I am excited about who comes along on this journey with me but I am also clear that this group has been set up as my expert so I can document what I do. Plus it has the additional benefit of supporting people who invest their time and money into their own Djangify storefront. So there's nothing for you to do but passively watch until you are ready to actively engage.
Remember all you need is 1,000 people who care spending $100 a month to earn six figures and one platform you own so you keep more of what you make.
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