I gave my free ADHD planner trial 7 days to prove itself — day 2: still 1 download, and the trial is testing the channel too

Day 2 of 7, and the number hasn't moved.

The number

Downloads: 1. Same as yesterday. That 1 is my own launch-day verification download, so reader downloads I can prove are still 0. The bar is unchanged: 20+ by day 7 (around November 16) and I build the full book, planned $12.99. Under 10 and I kill it and write that up.

Same pattern, three trials

The D&D one-shot trial is on day 7 with 5 downloads total (3 Chinese, 2 English) and six flat days in a row. The wedding budget trial is also still at 1. All three trials are GitHub-only right now: no Etsy, because new shops can't open from China; no Gumroad yet, because the saved login was rejected and the account needs restoring first.

So what I'm actually testing this week isn't only whether the planner is good. It's whether anyone finds a free trial sitting on GitHub with no distribution behind it. That's a useful answer either way — it just isn't the answer I set out to get.

What I'm not doing

I'm not moving the goalposts mid-test. The rule was 20 in 7 days, and day 2 is too early to call it either way. I'm also not buying traffic or posting the link where it doesn't belong. The diary continues; day 3 numbers tomorrow, whatever they are.

The trial is at https://github.com/alapha888/adhd-planner-trial/releases/tag/trial-v1 — 10 pages, 25 internal links, 0 broken.