quietmoneyChessigma
A free chess game analysis tool: import Chess.com/Lichess/PGN games and score every move with Stockfish, plus puzzles and training.
It parasitizes One-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Checkout visits over time
Checkout: checkout.stripe.com
1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- A free chess game analysis tool: import Chess.com/Lichess/PGN games and score every move with Stockfish, plus puzzles and training.
- Users
- Casual players on Chess.com/Lichess who want to review their games for free and improve
- Positioning
- Free, unlimited game review (a counterpart to Chess.com's paid Game Review), selling an AI coach and training as paid features
- Pricing
- Free; $19/month; $140/year (about $11.67/month); lifetime $490 Billing: mixed Free tier: yes Source: Existing
- Prices on site
- $0 (Free); $19/mo; $140/yr ($11.67/mo); $490 one-time (Lifetime)
- Team
- small team
- Acquisition entry points on site
- Discord community
- Sharing mechanics
- public profiles / leaderboards Links to a 'Puzzle Leaderboard' and Supercoach leaderboard; FAQ: 'Yes, completely. There is no paywall and no daily game limit.'
- Rough new MRR
- $70,201 – $171,490 Checkout visits last month × 20–30% conversion × listed price. New revenue only; renewals skip checkout, so real MRR is usually higher.
“Links to a 'Puzzle Leaderboard' and Supercoach leaderboard; FAQ: 'Yes, completely. There is no paywall and no daily game limit.'”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Direct 58.4%, search 41.6%; search terms include generic ones like chess analysis and chess review, but the input data records the brand-keyword share as 100% (chessigma, chess sigma). Referrals are minimal (lichess.org 0.51%), AI referrals are Claude 0.3% and Gemini 0.19%. Returning users come back by direct visits and daily streaks.
Last month's traffic sources
Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| Other | 100% |
Direct + brand search 100%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United States | 22.66% |
| India | 10.24% |
| Germany | 6.19% |
| United Kingdom | 3.56% |
| Brazil | 3.26% |
Countries (Semrush): India 13.9%, Bangladesh 13.2%, United States 9.4%, Indonesia 4.8%, Algeria 4.4%
Language
English
Social sources
YouTube, X (Twitter), Instagram
AI assistants
| Source | Share |
|---|---|
| Claude | 0.3 |
| Gemini | 0.19 |
| ChatGPT | 0.01 |
AI referrals (Semrush): Claude 5,775 (0.30%), Gemini 3,634 (0.19%), ChatGPT 157 (0.01%), fal.ai 67 (0.00%), Perplexity 23 (0.00%)
Keywords
1.9K keywords · brand ~100% · organic 100% / paid <0.01%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| chess analysis |
| chessigma |
| chess sigma |
| chesssigma |
| chess review |
Referring sites
4 referring sites
| Site | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| lichess.org | 0.51% |
Referrer categories
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Computers Electronics and Technology - Other | 23.11% |
| Board and Card Games | 13.95% |
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits, last 3 months
- 2.9M (3 months)
- Visits MoM
- +4.44%
- Country rank
- United States #10159
- Category rank
- Games/Board and Card Games #23
- Bounce rate
- 28.52%
- Pages / visit
- 30.71
- Visit duration
- 00:05:44
- Industry
- Board and Card Games
- Top 3 channels
- Direct › Organic Search › Organic Social (top channel 44.36%)
- Semrush monthly visits
- 3 months ago 1,726,639 · 2 months ago 1,584,074 · Last month 1,909,629 Semrush scale, ~3–4× Similarweb
- Semrush organic / paid search visits
- 163,215 / 2
- Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
- Direct 55.4%, google.com · Google organic 36.7%, brave.com 1.5%, bing.com 1.4%, accounts.google.com 1.2%
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Self-reported revenue on TrustMRR: MRR $7,620 (synced from the founder's payment account, trustmrr.com).
Other sites that started via “Creator or press spark”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via Other
FAQ
How many checkout visits does Chessigma get per month?
About 30,086 last month (Similarweb estimate), #83 of 606; the month before was 5,126. Opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue.
Where do Chessigma's new users come from?
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Mostly referrals, email or paid, or mostly direct with no clear source Direct 58.4%, search 41.6%; search terms include generic ones like chess analysis and chess review, but the input data records the brand-keyword share as 100% (chessigma, chess sigma). Referrals are minimal (lichess.org 0.51%), AI referrals are Claude 0.3% and Gemini 0.19%. Returning users come back by direct visits and daily streaks.
How much does Chessigma cost?
Free; $19/month; $140/year (about $11.67/month); lifetime $490
Dossier confidence: high. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The number: checkout visits is Similarweb's estimate of visits from the site to a checkout payment page; opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue. Small sites land on fixed buckets.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-26.