Corey Fruitman

Hi Product Hunt Community! I'm Corey, a two-time entrepreneur and in love with Indie Hacking. I love Slack, but I find the notifications distracting and a bit annoying. They also suck up a lot of team time and mental bandwidth. That's why I built Regarding, a Slack addon that lets you send silent messages to your team in DMs and Channels so you don't get the Slack popups and you can read...

"If you leave the world with more than you came into it with, you've done OK." -- my grandmother.

Marketing.

Built a Windows 8 app. Intentionally made it better than my Win32 app with an eye toward that being the platform of the future. Needless to say, it did not work out. Win32 app is still going strong though.

I reach out to people on LinkedIn. People are remarkably generous with their time if you approach them in the right way. I pay for Sales Navigator and send InMails, customized to each person. You can usually find the right people by watching their comments on a given niche. I'd say I get a 20-40% hit rate, show them my wireframes, and ask if it's something they'd be willing to pay for. Be...

I've done Black Friday deals in the past (though I won't be doing one this year). They're very successful. I teamed up with other people in the same industry and we each blasted our customer lists with each other's deals. Worked really well.