Here is our 30-day web analytics check-in as software engineers just winging the promotion part.

30 days ago we launched anyonewilldo.com — my version of a wheel of names tool, built with the features I actually wanted: no ads, random group formation, and a cleaner experience.

Sharing the numbers in case they’re useful as a benchmark for other first-timers.

What we did:

• Built the product
• Wrote ~10 Facebook posts over the course of a week
• Then stopped and watched

That was our entire go-to-market strategy.

What we got (very) wrong: We had Google indexing issues — mismatched canonical URLs and trailing slash inconsistencies meant we were basically invisible on search for the first 3 weeks. We’ve only just sorted that out.

The 30-day numbers (March 2026):

• 1,500 unique visitors
• 1,600 total visits
• 4,600 pageviews
• 2.76 pages per visit
• 46% bounce rate
• 1m 53s average visit duration
• ~1% heavy user rate (people returning and using it seriously)
• ~3% retention rate overall

Nothing to cheer about — but an excellent learning opportunity we plan to keep building on.

If you’ve never done this before and are wondering whether it’s worth trying: it probably is. You can almost certainly do better than us. 😄