Michael Lip $9.99 one-time

For solo developers building software portfolios

46,000 users and $1,631

A measured account of running forty Chrome extensions, thirty-three websites and a large agent fleet. Real figures, including the ones that show the whole thing barely earned. If you are about to build the same portfolio, this is what it actually pays.

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Pages
39
Format
PDF, A4 and US Letter
Read time
About 35 min
Updated
July 2026

What you get

Everything the numbers said, in the order I found it

39 pages. PDF, A4 and US Letter. No fluff chapters, no padded intro, no upsell at the end.

  • The full ledger. Forty extensions, thirty-three domains and one agent fleet, in a single table, with what each one earned rather than what it promised.

  • The 0.12% number. What 46,000 installs actually convert at when you finally measure it, why the funnel multiplies down to almost nothing, and which step was really at fault.

  • Queries that cannot be won. A five-band table showing 0 clicks from 5,252 impressions at every position, and the test that separates a keyword worth building from one that is unwinnable at any rank.

  • What the agent fleet cost. 58 campaigns, roughly 77,000 findings, about $176 spent and $0 earned, plus the comparison where the expensive model and the cheap one both returned nothing.

  • Thirteen retractions. A chapter of things I published or believed that later measurement proved wrong, with the corrected figure next to each one.

A free page from inside

Two keywords that look identical and are not

This is one of the 39 pages, in full. If it is useful on its own, the rest will be too.

Sample · Chapter 4, page 15

The queries no page can win

Conversion-class queries on my recipe site took 0 clicks from 5,252 impressions, at every position band, including one to three. The page ranks 1.9 for one long-tail query and still takes 0 clicks from 10 impressions. The mechanism is not ranking. Google answers the question itself, with a widget and an AI Overview, so there is no version of my page that wins the click.

The same dataset holds the positive result. Tool-intent queries on that domain convert at 6% to 17%. Answer-intent queries convert at 0% regardless of position. Those two shapes look identical in every keyword tool I have used. One is buildable. The other cannot be won at any position, by anyone, ever. Knowing which is which before you write the page is the difference between a site that earns and the thirty-three I have.

46,000 users and $1,63115

Why trust this

Where it comes from

  • Every figure comes from my own Google Search Console API pulls, Chrome Web Store dashboards, Stripe and Supabase records, and agent-run logs. The guide names the source for each one.
  • It includes the failures. A chapter of thirteen retractions covers claims I got wrong, each with the corrected number beside it.

Written by Michael Lip

I built the portfolio this guide measures. The numbers are mine, the mistakes are mine, and nothing here is reconstructed from memory.

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What exactly do I get, and how?
A PDF, in A4 and US Letter. The download link appears on the confirmation screen the moment payment clears. You do not wait for an email, and you do not need one to arrive.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no account, no login and no password. You pay, the file downloads, and that is the whole relationship unless you choose to email me.
What is the refund policy?
Thirty days, no questions asked. Email [email protected] and say refund. No form, no reason required, no attempt to talk you out of it. You keep the PDF.
Will it open on my phone?
Yes. It is a standard PDF, so it opens in Files on iPhone, in Drive or any reader on Android, and in every desktop browser. It prints cleanly if you prefer paper.
Is this a success story?
No, and that is the point. The portfolio in this guide earned $1,631 gross. The value is the measurement and the retractions, not a result worth copying.
Who is this not for?
If you want tactics that promise growth, skip it. This is a ledger. It is useful if you are deciding whether to build a portfolio like mine, and most useful if it talks you out of it.