How long did it take you to reach 100 subscribers?

[Rodimus13]

8ish months maybe on tapas?

webtoons it took about 4 months to get there.

We did a lot of cross promo

[Nerdicon]

Not there yet but I will be soon. It's taken me 4 years as I started mine during terrible phases of my life. I've sucked at cross promo

[AllynCrowe]

A few months? I wasn't super active for a long while, but once I started my main novel it took me about a month. In total I think it was 7-8 months.
Then again, I got really lucky, and I have a decent following right now for a novel writer.

[Tanako]

A couple of days for me? it is a long time ago anyway. my subscription rate has decreased a few and i know its because of Hiatus. I don't notice when people unsubscribe, but i do see the stats and it is a slow growth.
so, the goal for myself now is, how do i grow even further?

[NanettesClouds]

checks stats

oh wow.
uh 5 months?
I was sure it had taken longer than that - time flies I guess/

All that said it's gonna be different for everybody. Something that helped me is I released a minicomic a couple months before my main comic was launched, and then before that I had made some connections here in the community so there was a little bit of hype for it too :V

Growing 'organically' (which is to say, via relying on the sites algorithms) IMHO is a HUGE trap, and when I can I try to find other ways of finding new readers. For example I make one-sheet zines and minicomics and print them and distribute them around in meatspace. I've also made a bit of money from selling them! Collaborating with peers is a good way too (such as making guest comics or fan-art) because it sorta blends your audiences together.

EDIT: May as well talk about it here too since its sorta on topic - posting in self-promo threads is also not great, with the exception of ones like "share your horror/romance/action/sci-fi comic" or, my favorite, the "share your latest page" threads. If you use twitter artist support threads are good too, but I would stick to the smaller ones or ones that are similarly filtered as the self-promo threads I was talking about.

Good luck reaching your first 100!

[NRScott]

I wish I were an artist as well because collabs look like so much fun!! I've been playing with idea of commissioning a piece from someone, but that was more because I wanted some artwork of a future scene and less to draw in more readers

Thank you! I'm almost a third of the way there

[Rhonder]

I'm on the preemptive side (sitting at 9 months, 80 subs) but I average 2 subs per update (weekly) so I'm anticipating getting there right around the 1 year mark in October~

Most of my early readership was through networking (the majority of my first 30 or so subs were either other creators from around here, or a couple of my friends that made accounts to support me) and then from there it's been mostly organic.

[GesuGesu]

4 years ago, a week. Now? Probably at least 6 months.

Back then subscribers fell like rain because there were less things to read on Tapastic (now Tapas)

[DasIstWunderblyat]

@Maps Silent readers always shock me when they comment or like or interact like "What? You exist?!"

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Anyway, I think these times or lately readership is decreasing. I don't know if it's just my story sucks or the same with everyone. In another part, I also see more people uploading in this platform, especially for novel.

[TAMAnnoying]

Took me about a year and a month? Didn’t do much networking for it just hanged out on the forums mostly. Like @Kimoisempai said, my first comic got to 100 in the first few months before I quit and took a hiatus for a long time. When I came back tapas grew so much that good comics go under the radar all the time! I’m still finding comics that have been out for years that I’ve never seen before!

[VibrantFox]

first comic? about 7 months to get to 150 with basically no prior following, but that was also a few years ago when site was smaller than now...

for the reboot of the first comic i didn't pay attention to when it hit 100 but it was also a relatively short period of time (though a number of subs carried from the original)

and the most recent is just ~20 shy of a hundred so i'm guessing with the current track maybe by the end of the year if i'm lucky

[StrangeVision]

3 years, mostly trickled in from regular updates, A big chunk came from one forum post but most other times i've posted about it anywhere yielded little to no subs. My art started off rough as hell and the genre aint popular.

Still, most of 'em are inactive, pretty sure. I don't look at view count though, it'll bum me out.

[tchotchkeco]

It took about four months for Detox.

[OttoGruenwald]

Took about a year for me.

[Drewbie]

I just hit 100 subs and it took me one day less than 2 months! They were both organic and networking (I think the longer it went the more organic it got)

[Merle]

1 year on Tapastic (the first 60 completely organicily, then towards the ends I met some really cool friends that helped me reach the mark), 2 weeks on Webtoons.

[SketchbookKid]

Hmm. I feel like maybe 2 years here. Ive never been featured or staff picked so all my subs came from promoting on twitter/Instagram, and here in the forums.
Over on webtoons it took way less time, under a year for sure. Just posting.

[NRScott]

Update - I'm currently at 52 subscribers and I posted my first part on July 29th. Once I stopped posting daily, the amount of subscribers I was pulling in nosedived. I'm thinking of doing daily again for a week or so to try and get to the first hundred before I back off again.

[Cavechan]

I JUST REACHED 100 SUBS!! On Line Webtoon at least. XD I think it's been about 1.5 years. The subs just come from regular updates and I think a little bit from posting in the forums here and maybe cross-promos. I don't get many comments there so it's difficult to say.

On Tapas, I'm at 53 subs and it's been just over two years. Most of my readers are other comic makers!

[NRScott]

Congratulations!!!!