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Are you building in public? Drop what you are working on and one lesson learned from your journey!
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@angezanetti That's only true if you care! :D
Interesting product! Btw, images IMPROVE YOUR WORKFLOW section look really blurry, I thought I'll give some feedback here ;p
We are working on LabiOffice - suite of apps to Build, Manage & Grow an eCommerce business. And launching our mobile app on Product Hunt tomorrow for LabiDesk.com - help desk software :)
Our lesson 👉 Plan out iterations thoroughly, don't jump at everything at once, there is always gonna be something to add!
I was writing a SEO E-Book in the last months. Lesson? Connect with people. 10 deep connections are worth more than 100 superficial followers
Currently Building https://www.collabclub.co/ a platform to barter/exchange time for the skills you need. Building with 7 others as a community project as part of the Wannabe Entrepreneur Community
Our Lesson is that it's challenging to build as a group of strangers!
We created PremastPlus for Google Slides, and we will launch it in a few days. I have learned that improve your product based on what users exactly need 🤩 ⚡️
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
I am building https://thisappwillgiveyouabs.co...
One lesson learned: Make something useful, and make it findable, and they will find it.
I have done minimal marketing and monthly users keeps climbing.
This is not 'build it and they will come'. More like 'make it useful and make it findable via SEO'.
Hey @5harath 👋 - we're building a Twitter game called twiDAQ. Launching on here in a few hours ( https://www.producthunt.com/post... 🚀 ) so I'll be sure to come back and let you know what we learn!!
Hey @5harath - So the learning is going on right now! We're live ☝️ and just about on the homepage (right down at the bottom)... but folks are trying the game which is a great start! I'll let you know as the day goes on what changes. 👍
I'm working on https://rosie.land - mostly it's writing, sharing, researching and education on community building.
Mostly I share stuff randomly on Twitter or Indie Hackers.
I also have a small private indie community where I share stuff in semi-public, I'm much more transparent there.
Right now we are working with n Colorsandfonts.com and wickedbackgrounds.com
We sold our SAAS a couple of weeks ago, so we are growing our side projects at www.apesoflondon.studio
Lesson,... Make your saas look good already from the beginning.
Originally we started building https://www.decklinks.com/ in public so that we can build together with our early adopters and prioritize the roadmap. Any DeckLinks user can access our private Slack channel and become a part of our team. 🧡
We thought building in public was all about getting feedback on our product and brainstorming together with our users. But there was so much more than just product communications.
We started to actively promote our early adopters and feature their work. We tried to help them with anything we could, from introductions with investors and journalists to pitch decks designs and narrations. We also started inviting our early adopters on our podcast, to help them share their stories.
The biggest lesson I learned, when you build in public => make it about your users, not about your product. Believe in your early adopters, understand what will help them become successful and help them grow.
The best way to grow is to grow together. And if you can share the incredible stories of your users, and promote their offerings and services through your product, that's a win-win for everyone. 🚀🚀
As an example, I'd like to take this opportunity to share a deck link of one of our early adopters:
https://my.decklinks.com/sascha-...
Currently building Notion Invoice, an invoicing solution for business users of Notion. (See https://notioninvoice.com).
Most recent lesson: Your MVP needs fewer features than you think, but your UX needs to be more polished than you think.
@farez_rahman we spent a large portion of our funds on a chat functionality which neither works nor is necessary for our platform.
I am working on Growth at Blinkstore.in and Letterflix.com. Also, focused on my Twitter growth. These, getting out to my comfort and beyond my capacities to help makers on the Internet with their product, marketing, and hiring.
We're working on Kairn, a productivity app to help people and their teams achieve their boldest goals & feel fulfilled (https://kairn.app/).
Biggest lesson 👉 community is key. Building genuine connections and having people to talk about your product is way more powerful than any content you'll create yourself.
Building https://unblokd.com
Lesson 1: It takes 10x the effort you anticipate to make someone notice your product.
Lesson 2: Your first iteration will always be s**t compared to your 10th iteration. But you won't get to the 10th iteration without going through the 1st iteration.
I am building a virtual co-working space for bootstrappers (https://wannabe-entrepreneur.com...) and my lesson is that paying members are actually much more active and engaged than on-paying ones
Working on https://wordsfromimage.com - asked a friend a quick feedback and ended up having to do a quite serious UI/UX restyle! great to have early feedbacks!
I'm building a gym workout app, and I did a soft launch already, but working on improvements. https://athletium.app
I've learned that marketing is much harder than I thought.
@ckpleiser Hi Carsten. It is an app where you can plan and log your gym workouts. It is not the typical fitness app, but for more advanced and more motivated athletes, who like to experiment with their training. People who have the mindset of competitive bodybuilders and powerlifters.
@bjorn_moren I think it's great that you are targeting such a specific niche (bodybuilders & powerlifters).
Marketing and working with a very specific group in my experience is helpful for several reason:
- you'll know fairly quick if you are actually solving a problem for this group (if you talk to them and let them try out your product)
- creating a brand and marketing is a lot easier with a specific target group in mind
- Often the group that you are not specifically targeting (e.g. the casual gym visitor, hobby-lifter) will also listen and be interested
@alex_hw Thanks Alex, you make great points. It was also a way for me to stay more focused in product development. I took the decision after I tested a lot of fitness apps and realized that no one has built an app that I personally would want to use. I saw that there is a space here that no one occupies. There are hundreds generic fitness apps, so I would stand no chance if I made yet another one.
We are building a handoff tool for designers and developers to transform any figma component into fullcode.
A learning? Developers takes the majority of their time building pixel perfect interfaces but almost never get right to it.
Proposal: Give the power to the designer to ship production-ready components and avoid work duplication, developer will focus 100% in functionality instead of UI
this is our upcoming page here in product hunt : https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
Landing page: https://frontdrop.io
Happy to hear advices and feedback
Working on https://vero.fm
Learned that copywriting for SEO is not an effective strategy for validating an idea.
Making a cute series of passports to collect street art on a personal level with some fun. Being introverted, marketing is quite challenging. Also, the age gap, I find I’m farther behind technology and the curve is very steep and moves fast. All in all it’s a very enjoyable process, and tho it’s public, others opinions are mostly for understanding, not personal validation. Nice thread. Thank you everyone for sharing your insights.
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