IndieAudit: Unified ROI & Maintenance Tracker for Micro-SaaS Portfolios

Don't forget to look back: My experience auditing 6 months of side-project income

The audit habit is genuinely underrated, but the value isn't the total, it's the decision it should force. Almost every micro-SaaS portfolio follows the same shape: one or two tools carry nearly all the revenue, and a long tail of near-zero earners that still quietly eat maintenance and attention. So the real output of this exercise is two lists: which 1-2 are showing enough signal to deserve 10x the effort, and which should you kill or put fully on autopilot to reclaim the focus they're stealing. Celebrating the sum feels good; the kill/double-down call is what actually moves the number next quarter. The portfolio model only works if each tool is a set-and-forget, distribution-driven asset (ranks for a keyword, needs ~zero support). The moment a $15/mo tool needs active customer support, the spread-many-bets strategy collapses, because your time doesn't scale. So when you audit, also score each tool on maintenance burden, not just income, the best ones earn while you ignore them. And the strategy underneath what you're doing, spray many cheap bets, double down on winners, is sound. The lever that makes it pay is shots on goal: the more tools you can ship cheaply, the more chances at a real winner. That's actually where I can help, genuinely on-topic: I run moonshift.io, you describe a tool and it builds + deploys it overnight while you sleep, code lands in your own repo. For a portfolio player it means more bets per month without more burnout. First run is completely free, no cards, no strings attached. Keep doing the audits, they compound.

The audit habit is genuinely underrated, but the value isn't the total, it's the decision it should force. Almost every micro-SaaS portfolio follows the same shape: one or two tools carry nearly all the revenue, and a long tail of near-zero earners that still quietly eat maintenance and attention. So the real output of this exercise is two lists: which 1-2 are showing enough signal to deserve 10x the effort, and which should you kill or put fully on autopilot to reclaim the focus they're stealing. Celebrating the sum feels good; the kill/double-down call is what actually moves the number next quarter. The portfolio model only works if each tool is a set-and-forget, distribution-driven asset (ranks for a keyword, needs ~zero support). The moment a $15/mo tool needs active customer support, the spread-many-bets strategy collapses, because your time doesn't scale. So when you audit, also score each tool on maintenance burden, not just income, the best ones earn while you ignore them. And the strategy underneath what you're doing, spray many cheap bets, double down on winners, is sound. The lever that makes it pay is shots on goal: the more tools you can ship cheaply, the more chances at a real winner. That's actually where I can help, genuinely on-topic: I run moonshift.io, you describe a tool and it builds + deploys it overnight while you sleep, code lands in your own repo. For a portfolio player it means more bets per month without more burnout. First run is completely free, no cards, no strings attached. Keep doing the audits, they compound.