u/mythicalrose_com

Hi everyone,

​I’m a software engineer working at a startup in Sri Lanka, and I need some business/marketing advice for a side project I’ve been working on.

​The Background

Back in 2019 during my university days, I started a history blog on Blogger, bought a domain, and got it approved for Google AdSense. I tried getting traffic, but it failed. A few years later, I rebuilt it using WordPress, but still had no success. My main struggles were a lack of initial investment and content creation—even though I love the history niche, writing proper articles myself is hard for me.

​Despite that, I managed to build a Facebook page with 1.4k followers, a group, and a YouTube channel with over 700 subscribers. However, I haven't posted lately, so these channels are currently inactive.

​The New Idea

Over the last 2–3 months, I decided to try again, but with a completely new approach. I changed the structure from a standard blog into a community publication platform.

​Here is how I want it to work:

​Crowdsourced Content: Anyone interested in history can upload an article.

​Public Voting: The community votes on submissions to approve and publish them, ensuring the content is accurate and high-quality.

​Knowledge Graphs (The Unique Feature): When someone writes about a historical event, person, or artifact, they can link it to other articles. Users can then visually analyze the connections between different historical events.

​Most history sites out there are just standard blogs. They don't have this interactive, visual analysis part, so I really believe this system has potential.

​Current Status

​The frontend and the visual connection graph parts are fully done, and the system is live.

​AdSense is connected and showing ads.

​To populate the site initially, I connected free LLM models to automatically generate and publish history articles with connections. It has generated over 130 articles so far.

​What's missing: I still need to implement the user login, content uploading, and public voting features.

​My Problem & Where I Need Advice

Right now, I am getting 0 traffic.

​I want to invest my time to build the missing features (login, voting, user uploads) so real people can start creating content. But before I spend hours coding, I want to make sure this isn't going to be a waste of time.

​I have no budget for paid marketing or promotions. Also, English is my second language, so content marketing is a bit tough for me.

​This is my honest situation. How can I get people to visit the site and actually start contributing content without spending money? Does this idea sound viable as a business, or should I change my approach?

​I can share the link if anyone wants to check out the current live graph feature. Thank you so much for your advice!

I'm software engineer who work in the startup in sri lanka. Im my university time I create a blog using blogger about history, and I buy a domain and connected it with and able to get approved by the google adsense around 2019. I tried some methods to get traffic to that blog but it failed. Also I recreate the blog with wordpress after few years but no success. My main issues are the lac of initial investment and the content creation, I can't write proper content even I interested in the history niche. But i manage the create 1.4k followers facebook page and a group also create youtube channel currently with 700+ subscribers. But I didn't add any content lately so they are not active now.

In last 2-3 month I try to build this again. I change my blog structure completely and I plan to recreate it as publication place that anyone have interest in the history and if they found something they can upload that to my system and go trough the public voting system and get approved the article in the site. Also mainly I focus the system to be like knowledge graph, which means if someone create the content about some historical event, artifact, person they can link other articles to it so it can visually analyze the connection from other events or artifacts from the history.

I complete the frontend and connection visualizing part and all the initial steps are done and the system is live now also I connected the adsense account to that and it show the adds there. But I need to implement the public user login part and the content uploading and public voting system. I say lot of sites that are publishing the articles about history but they are like normal blogs, not have analyzing part there, So I think my system have potential to grow. But I got 0 traffic at this moment.

Currently I implement the system using free AI models and it generate blog post everyday and automatically published them to the system. I do this because initially need to have some content in the site to show when someone came to it. currently i successfully generated 130+ articles with the connections. But I need to make this system, people come and create content there and published them. So it go through the public voting and it create majority acceptable publications about the history.

This is my honest story about this. I need a help from you to fine-tune this idea and also I need to invest my time to implement other feature of this system. But if it not going to be success It is useless to do so I need some advises. I don't have money to promote this system now. Also my English knowledge is also not good, so sorry for the mistake in there. But this is the thing that is in my mind. So can you give me some advises about this situation? If anyone ask I will give the link also. Thank you...