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About TubeMilestone

By Ivaylo Zhivkov, founder

TubeMilestone started because I was stuck at the same wall a lot of small creators hit: enough videos to have real data, not enough subscribers or watch hours to hit YouTube's 1,000 / 4,000 monetization threshold, and no clear read on which of my videos were actually working or why.

I still make videos myself. My own channel is monetized and currently growing — +20,400 subscribers in the last 28 days alone. This isn't a spreadsheet exercise for me; I'm actively in the same feed, algorithm, and upload grind as everyone using TubeMilestone.

The problem I kept running into

YouTube Studio shows you dozens of numbers. None of them tell you what to do next. I'd stare at the analytics dashboard after every upload, see that one video did better than another, and have no real idea why — was it the topic, the thumbnail, the upload time, the length? Existing tools were built for creators who already know their niche and want keyword research or tag suggestions. I didn't need more data. I needed someone to read my data and tell me the one thing to change.

Why I built TubeMilestone

I'm not a YouTube growth guru — I'm a developer who got tired of guessing. TubeMilestone connects to your actual YouTube channel through Google's own API and reads your real performance: which video pulled in the most subscribers relative to its views, when your specific audience is online, what your comments are actually saying. Then it turns that into one weekly report in plain English: here's what happened, here's why, here's the one thing to try next.

It's built around the exact milestone that matters most to a new creator — 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours — because that's the finish line I was staring at when I started this.

How TubeMilestone is different

Full transparency: TubeMilestone is a solo, bootstrapped project. There's no investor round or growth team behind it — just one developer building the tool he wished existed when he was working toward monetization himself.
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