PressDrop

$700 in revenue 3 weeks after launch - My Story

27th of August 2026. That's when I launched the idea of PressDrop.io.

My initial launch was on a bunch of .lol sites. Still remember those?

As you can see in the graph, I got my first sales on the FIRST DAY! As a matter of fact, my second visitor became my first customer https://x.com/isjackback/status/2093202733603963006 so crazy!!

Then came silence (see graph). One week of miserable silence.

I tried everything:

• Posted on X

• Launched on PH and other platforms

• Posted on Reddit

Nothing worked. Until.

I got another SALE, and then another, and they kept coming in.

I think this tweet was a turning point https://x.com/isjackback/status/2096932995076657467.

I started SHOWING what PressDrop can do. Showing does more than telling.

Along the way I kept raising prices, I started out really cheap with negative margins on the product. I did it just to see if anyone would even pay anything for my product.

Turns out, they will!

I'm still running early bird discounted prices, currently at $99. In my opinion the retail of PressDrop is somewhere around or north of $199, but the market will be the judge of that!

What is PressDrop?
PressDrop takes your startup to the news. No PR skills needed, just paste your URL, get a press release, pay and we distribute it to 500+ news outlets, including high authority sites with 80+ DR. PressDrop exists, so that you can tell the internet about your startup.

First startup dropped on the news by PressDrop!

I launched PressDrop 3 weeks ago and got my first customer on the second visit to the page. Now I was finally able to deliver on the promise to her.

And boy did we deliver! 552 news outlets with the highest DR of 82.

She was very kind to make her report public so I'm sharing it below:
https://pressdrop.io/reports/thecozydev-co-iaq0si

Thanks Uneed for supporting PressDrop on our launch and beyond!

- Jack

Thank you Adeel! It really should be a no brainer, I will dogfeed it with PressDrop and share the journey from first sales and 0DR up!

We're live! Thanks for the first supporters, you mean the world to me 🥹🫰

I want to share below more about why I created PressDrop in the first place. Appreciate any and all comments!

TLDR;

PressDrop turns your product launch into a press release and distribute it to 300+ news feeds. Hundreds of backlinks for SEO, plus AEO so chat agents can cite you. Founding customer pricing for first 5 customers: $49. Regular price $199.

The full story:
I’ve been thinking about PR and AEO a lot lately.

At my day job at a small startup, we’ve used press releases a few times and I’ve seen them actually get picked up by news sites and the articles cited by chatbots.

So I started wondering:

why are indie hackers not doing this?

If you’re a solo founder who just spent 3 months building a SaaS (or 5 hours lol), paying $1k–$5k for PR doesn’t really make sense.

Hence PressDrop.

You give it your launch/news → get a press release → it distributes it to 300+ news feeds.

I’m also really interested in the SEO/AEO side of this.

More places mentioning your company = more chances to get discovered in Google and referenced by AI search/answer engines and from my experience AEO (chatbots) reaally love news articles.

I want to make this stupidly simple and accessible.

Not $2,000.

Not a PR retainer of $10,000.

$49.

First 5 founders get it for $49, next 5 for $79, regular price is $199.

It’s super early and I’m basically trying to find out if this is actually something founders would like - the first packages are sold on negative margin. 😅

So if you’re an indie hacker:

have you ever paid for PR?

did it work?

and would you pay $49 to give your launch a shot at getting picked up?

Would love to hear what you guys think 🫶