# What were your wins and fails last month?

**URL:** <https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-were-your-wins-and-fails-last-month/7072>\
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**Created:** [September 4, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-were-your-wins-and-fails-last-month/7072 "2025-09-04T12:39:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beckett](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/beckett/32/2046_2.png) [@Beckett](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/Beckett)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-were-your-wins-and-fails-last-month/7072/1 "2025-09-04T12:39:50Z")

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What were your wins and fails last month?

I’ll start:

**Win** – I tested posting my tool in 8 directories (from a list I’ve been building). Some worked, some flopped, but it still netted me 458 new users.

**Fail** – Soft launched a new product way too cheap, lost about $100.

What about you? What were your wins and fails in the past month?

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**Author:** ![danny\_support](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/danny_support/32/3492_2.png) [@danny\_support](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/danny_support)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-were-your-wins-and-fails-last-month/7072/2 "2025-09-04T21:51:16Z")

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Hi @Beckett ,  
Thank you for starting such a great discussion topic! We are looking forward to seeing what others share.

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**Author:** ![stephenbdiaz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/stephenbdiaz/32/4023_2.png) [@stephenbdiaz](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/stephenbdiaz)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-were-your-wins-and-fails-last-month/7072/3 "2025-09-09T05:15:16Z")

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Curious on the directories! Cool idea 🙂

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**Author:** ![stephenbdiaz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/stephenbdiaz/32/4023_2.png) [@stephenbdiaz](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/stephenbdiaz)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-were-your-wins-and-fails-last-month/7072/4 "2025-09-09T07:04:08Z")

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**Wins:**  
• hit 1000 users  
• profitably acquiring users through ads  
• did a TON of testing and got some great data

**Fails:**  
• one of the tools didn’t work completely, took us 600 uses to discover it, which left a bunch of users frustrated  
• onboarding has been rough, sometimes the create user automations I set up works great, and other times it doesn’t. This has led to refunds / disputes for people not getting what they purchased

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**Author:** ![Ned.Malki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/ned.malki/32/5918_2.png) [@Ned.Malki](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/Ned.Malki)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-were-your-wins-and-fails-last-month/7072/5 "2025-09-09T07:46:45Z")

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@Beckett sent you a DM about the directories!

**Wins:** I finally revamped my online brand and finalized my marketing strategy (and I already see some other experts doing something similar 😉) - excited to begin implementation across the board and see positive changes come to the Pickaxe platform! 🚀

Also, I delivered 80% one of the most complex projects I ever built on Pickaxe for my client. Excited to see him lead his industry and make a positive change that drives AI adoption in his country and industry!

**Fails:** I almost died from working too much 😅 But the outcome is well worth it.