The First Five Hundred | An Organic Traffic & Digital Product Experiment.
This isn't a community...yet! In 2025 Skool went public. Every group, every post, every conversation - indexable by Google and AI. Most people missed what that actually meant. I didn't. I'm here to run an experiment in public and let the search engines watch. Here's what the experiment actually is. I build digital product websites using my own tool, Djangify. Each one sells something different - PDFs, AI art, music, digital downloads - in different niches, to different audiences. My job is to get each one to its first $500 as fast as possible, then work out how to do it faster, then faster again. What I'm testing: free traffic vs paid. Blog content vs social. Which niches convert. Which products sell. What actually works right now in 2026 when everyone's clicks are down and attention is expensive. I don't need anyone watching to do this. I can run a thousand sites, juggle them like spinning plates, and never invite a single person in. I know that 1000 true fans paying $100 a year is a six figure business. Djangify can get me there. But building in public means being accountable. And it means the data I collect becomes useful to people other than me. Why Skool specifically? Because I can't buy the kudos that large companies have built over decades. But I can build in public, let Google index every post, and let the experiment speak for itself. Skool isn't my community platform. It's my SEO strategy, my accountability system, and my proof of concept - all running simultaneously. I'm Diane Corriette. I spent 40 years as the engine behind other people's businesses. Websites, content, social media, digital marketing - I built it all for everyone else. This is the first time I'm building something that's entirely mine. Not because I chose this path. But because I'm here and the work still needs doing. You didn't choose this either. You're doing it anyway. Let's make it count.