Meet the family:
Here is an overview of the projects and digital products under the Love Curated umbrella. Select the item to see deeper stats, milestones and behind-the-scenes blogs:
| Since | Name | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Love Curated | The parent company housing all the love brands and products. The Love Curated website launches in June 2022 with plans to curate design, development & productivity finds. |
| 2022 | UX Love | Curated resource of thoughtful, clever and fun design details. Launching Aug 2022. |
| 2020 | LPHT | 100 Landing Page Hot Tips snackable via Email Drip, Ebook, Audiobook, Notion Ebook, Kindle and Checklist formats. |
| 2019 | Email Love | Curated resource for Email design inspiration and resources. |
| 2018 | Yo! Podcast | The Yo! Podcast spotlights incredible designers, developers, makers and entrepreneurs building their own future. |
| 2008 | One Page Love | Curated resource for One Page website inspiration, templates and resources. |
Running Costs:
Here are the monthly running costs that might be of value if you’re considering building similar sites or products. Please note these costs are often shared across the network and they are approximate figures based on recent invoices:
| Cost/mo | Provider | Category | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| $170 | Ahrefs | Link checking | These little robots are reporting on 1000's of links within inspiration, template, article, digital ebook and podcast transcriptions. Will eventually be optimizing SEO with Ahrefs too but a low priority while we launch the new sites. |
| $100 | Flywheel | WordPress Hosting | Shared with all projects including this site. |
| $70 | IMGIX | Image CDN | This is for Retina-optimized review screenshots (example), smaller archive thumbnails (example) and generating snazzy social share images (example). |
| $32 | Plausible | Analytics | Simple and privacy-friendly analytics used across full network. |
| $30 | MailerLite | Email Marketing | Managing all inspiration newsletters. |
| $29 | Lemon Squeezy | Commerce | Online transactions for a few items on the site like website and template submissions. |
| $25 | QuickBooks | Accounting | Tracking expenses, PTY LTD company annual reporting, VAT. |
| $24 | Figma | Design | Blog thumbnails, social media images, article infographics, mock-ups, wireframes, podcast artwork, Ebook PDFs, website template designs. This cost is for 2 people per month. |
| $20 | Vimeo Pro | Video Hosting | Ad-free, customizable and unsharable videos for my courses and round-ups (example) |
| $16 | Webflow | Template Builder | The Webflow Templates built by OPL are built using the platform but I also plan to build some Landing Pages using it for the Ebook, Course, Audit service and more. |
| $16 | Notion | Planning, writing | Organizing the product road map, bug checklists, curating content, storing screenshots of references, drafting articles, dabbling with ideas (previously was using Trello). This cost is for 2 people per month. |
| $15 | EmailOctopus | Email Marketing | Managing the free 100 day Hot Tips Email Drip and the dedicated Ebook newsletter (for future version updates). Gets a welcome email with download links. |
| $15 | Epidemic Sound | Music | Royalty-free music for tutorial videos, social media sharing clips and the Yo! podcast. |
| $12 | Simplecast | Simplecast | Podcast hosting and distribtuion. |
| $10 | Loom | Screencasts | Landing Page video feedback and audits. |
| $8 | Hover | Domain | That sweet yo.fm domain is $89/year |
| $6 x 5 | G Suite | Email for the network seperated into different inboxes for each project. | |
| $10 | Screenshot Machine | Screenshots | Screenshot taking API integrated with some upcoming Email Love tools I'm working on. |
| $5 | TinyPNG | Image Compression | Before Email Love Emails head to Amazon S3, they get resized and compressed to optimize load times |
| $4 | Carrd | Template Builder | I'm on the Carrd Pro Plus account at $49/year that allows me to build free Carrd templates (example) but also test other authors templates needing higher Carrd tiers. See Carrd template archive). |
| $2 | Hover | Domain & DNS | Two domains related to this site, average around $30/year. |
| 5% +30c | Gumroad | Commerce | Online transactions for the Landing Page Hot Tips Ebook. |
Additional Free Software:
Bless the freemium model...
| Cost/mo | Provider | Category | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | Zapier | Automation | Ebook sale with Gumroad to the dedicated Ebook newsletter (for future version updates). Gets a welcome email with download links. |
| $0 | GitHub | Code Backups | All website changes are tracked here in a private repo. I'm not collaborating with anyone but it's a great way to log changes if I notice traffic spikes or dips. |
Startup Costs:
These are the once-off costs to help launch or strengthen the projects. I'm a huge believer in reinvesting earnings straight back into the network:
| Date | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ongoing | Outsourcing on email code cleaning script and tools via Upwork | $2,000+ |
| 06.04.2022 | yo.fm domain | $535 |
| 25.03.2022 | "One Page Love" Trademark (Wordmark) | $650 |
| 25.03.2022 | "Love Curated" Trademark (Wordmark) | $650 |
| 04.03.2022 | @lovecurated Instagram Handle (gift to owner) | $100 |
| 21.12.2021 | lovecurated.com domain | $1,200 |
| 17.09.2021 | "Email Love" Trademark (Wordmark) | $650 |
| 24.08.2021 | uxlove.com domain | $2,070 |
| 2020 | Digital Assets for the Ebook | $100+ |
| 2020 | Copywriter for the Ebook | $200+ |
| 2019 | Branding clean up by my friend Jason | $250 |
| 31.10.2018 | emaillove.com domain | $1,500 |
| 08.06.2017 | onepagetemplates.com domain | $500 |
| 04.03.2015 | fullsingle.com domain | $200 |
| 01.03.2008 | onepagelove.com domain | $10 |
Milestones
Launches and noteworthy features.
| Date | Milestone | Details | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01.05.2022 | Pivot | Yo! newsletter pivots to Love Curated newsletter | Soon |
| 06.04.2022 | Domain | Acquired yo.fm | Visit |
| 01.04.2022 | Growth | Our first full-time emplyee starts to help with content creation | |
| 28.03.2022 | Trademark | Registered "Love Curated" Wordmark | |
| 28.03.2022 | Trademark | Registered "One Page Love" Wordmark | |
| 04.03.2022 | Social Handle | Acquired @lovecurated Instagram Handle (passed on by owner) | Visit |
| 21.12.2021 | Domain | Acquired lovecurated.com | |
| 09.11.2021 | Social Handle | Acquired squatted @emaillove Twitter handle (using Trademark) | Visit |
| 17.09.2021 | Trademark | Registered "Email Love" Wordmark | |
| 20.09.2021 | Failed Section | Removed Newsletter Discovery on Email Love | Debrief |
| 17.11.2021 | Marketing Experiment | Black Friday 2021 Landing Page Hot Tips Experiment | Debrief |
| 20.04.2021 | Release | Landing Page Hot Tips Ebook v1.1 | Tweet |
| 24.03.2021 | Domain | Acquired uxlove.com | Visit |
| 02.09.2020 | Launch | Landing Page Hot Tips Ebook v1.0 | Tweet |
| 26.05.2020 | Launch | Start of 100 tip Twitter thread and free email drip | Tweet |
| 19.03.2019 | Launch | Yo! Podcast episode 1 with @AJLKN | Visit |
| 28.12.2019 | Section Launch | Introduced Author Profiles on One Page Love | Visit |
| 27.12.2019 | Section Launch | Introduced Typeface archives on One Page Love | Visit |
| 05.09.2019 | Award | Email Love awarded #1 Product of the Day and #3 Product of the Week on Product Hunt | Visit |
| 04.09.2019 | Launch | Email Love v1 official launch | Blog |
| 01.08.2019 | Launch | Email Love v0.9 soft-launch with only 36 emails | Blog |
| 20.03.2019 | Launch | Launch of One Page Love v3 with new red branding | Blog |
| 13.03.2019 | Feature Launch | One Page Love archive thumbnails now include longer screenshots | |
| 12.02.2019 | Feature Launch | One Page Love archives now infinite scroll | |
| 31.10.2018 | Domain | Acquired emaillove.com | Blog |
| 31.03.2018 | Anniversary | One Page Love turns ten | Blog |
| 01.02.2018 | Launch | Yo! YouTube show episode 1 drops | Visit |
| 31.03.2008 | Launch | One Page Love launches | Blog |