quietmoneyUplift.5ch
UPLIFT, the paid membership of the 5ch forum: removes ads, gives access to past logs, and lifts regional and carrier posting restrictions.
UPLIFT is not aOne-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
- UPLIFT, the paid membership of the 5ch forum: removes ads, gives access to past logs, and lifts regional and carrier posting restrictions.
- Users
- Heavy users of Japan's 5ch forum, including overseas people who post via VPN
- Positioning
- The only official paid privilege for 5ch, solving posting restrictions
- Pricing
- 1 month $4, 6 months $20, 12 months $36, auto-renewing Billing: subscription Free tier: no Source: Existing
- Prices on site
- $4/1 month / $20/6 months / $36/12 months
- Team
- small team
“1ヶ月サブスクリプション 自動更新 / 書き込み規制対象のプロバイダーからの書き込み / 海外のホストからの書き込み”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Referral 69.8%, direct 22.6%, search 4.5%; new users mainly arrive from links and prompts inside the 5ch forum (5ch.net, bbspink.com), and search terms are "5ch uplift" and "uplift とは" (what is uplift). Memberships auto-renew, and returning users come back through the forum.
Last month's traffic sources
Top channel measured by Similarweb, others estimated by rank
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| SEO | 3% |
| Other | 97% |
Direct + brand search 24%. 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 |
|---|---|
| Japan | 72.05% |
| United States | 22.83% |
| Korea, Republic of | 3.39% |
| Taiwan | 1.16% |
| Singapore | 0.57% |
Language
Japanese
Keywords
10 keywords · brand ~24% · organic 100% / paid 0%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| 5ch uplift |
| uplift とは 5ちゃんねる |
| uplift 5ch |
| upliftを利用して書き込む |
| uplift とは5ちゃんねる |
Non-brand queries: uplift とは 5ちゃんねる, upliftを利用して書き込む, uplift とは5ちゃんねる
Referring sites
5 referring sites
| Site | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| bbspink.com | 0.09% |
| 5ch.net | 0.06% |
Referrer categories
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Games - Other | 86.4% |
| Arts and Entertainment - Other | 6.93% |
| Adult | 2.07% |
| News & Media Publishers | 1.94% |
| Animation and Comics | 1.57% |
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits, last 3 months
- 84.8K (3 months)
- Visits MoM
- -14.96%
- Bounce rate
- 66.89%
- Pages / visit
- 1.52
- Visit duration
- 00:00:58
- Industry
- Games
- Top 3 channels
- Referrals › Direct › Organic Search (top channel 69.82%)
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Piggyback on a platform”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via Other
FAQ
How many checkout visits does Uplift.5ch get per month?
About 12,894 last month (Similarweb estimate), #239 of 606; the month before was 0. Opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue.
Where do Uplift.5ch'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 Referral 69.8%, direct 22.6%, search 4.5%; new users mainly arrive from links and prompts inside the 5ch forum (5ch.net, bbspink.com), and search terms are "5ch uplift" and "uplift とは" (what is uplift). Memberships auto-renew, and returning users come back through the forum.
How much does Uplift.5ch cost?
1 month $4, 6 months $20, 12 months $36, auto-renewing
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.