We shipped 3 products in 3 months and got $10K+ in revenue. 10 tips to ship faster 🚀

Sveta Bay
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Here are 10 dead-simple rules to launching your products faster 🏎 All tips are used with our product - https://www.makerbox.club/ 1. You don't need a logo to launch. Just make a gradient box or a text logo in Figma. 2. Don't waste months in user research. Limit it to 20 interviews and one market research. 3. Don't pitch investors with an idea. Instead, build a prototype faster. 4. Don't pivot your product every week. Pick a hypothesis and stick to it. 5. Don't build features that will be used by less than 20% of users. 6. Commit the launch date on social media: Twitter, Linkedin, Indie Hackers, and Product Hunt. 7. Don't waste time outreaching media or influencers to promote your product. No one cares until you get some real traction. 8. Start selling early bird offers (without the product) to commit before the customers. 9. Stop doing endless meetings to "align" with your team. 10. Use no-code tools to build a landing page until you've validated your value proposition. The sooner customers will see your product the better 😊 Focus on delivering an outstanding MVP, not a spectacular footer. By the way, today we're live with our 3rd product - MakerBox Roasting 💎 We'd love to receive your feedback! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/makerbox-roasting

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Vitali G
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Great tips! Agree with all statements)
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@vitaligisko thanks, Vitali!
Dhruv Bhatia
Great tips here. I'd say build an audience too. Launching with an audience may even be more powerful :)
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@dhruv_bhatia Yeah, 100% truth! It's always great to have support!
Sebastian J
Any tips about how to reach out to potential customers? I'm in the validation stage and this has been pretty tough for me. Not sure where to even start, also is there anything you'd add/remove from my product's landing page? https://www.kicki.dev/ Thanks for sharing this is great!
Brenna Donoghue
Love this, especially all the moments where you're committing to delivery publicly and to those who have signed up. Nothing forces imperfection like an agressive deadline.
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@brenna_donoghue absolutely agree! Social commitment is the best motivation!
Debajit Sarkar
@basv Thanks for sharing Sveta. Will you please provide some insight about Point 2. How do you identify and contact users who you interview?
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@dsarkar thanks, Debajit! For me, it's my Twitter audience & Polywork opportunities. My audience is the same for all my products, so I don't need to identify it every time
Ash Rahman 🎮
I can totally relate to #9, #10. Be cautious of team that requires endless meeting, may be they are not a fit for the startup.
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@ashrahman Yeah, 90% of meeting are unproductive and could be a message
Cezary Dobrowolski
It's so hard to get over the concept of a very polished MVP. Thinking that I could use just a gradient box as a logo or no-code page builder for a landing page is terrifying... ly on point. Don't waste your time on bullshit. Validate, then build, then scale.
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@wekh and then after a year release a startup that has no product market fit 😅 This is the main reason why 90% of startups fail
David Tedaldi
Thanks for sharing, @basv! I am a big big fun of both 3. and 4.
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@david_tedaldi1 yeah, they're like "first things first!"
Darwin Binesh
Thanks - this is great! Question - where did your traffic come from?
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@darwin_binesh the most - from PH launches Now it's coming from - SEO - activities on PH, Reddit, IH - Twitter
Edward G
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Awesome points here! Especially #9 which would be great advice to every company :). What are your suggestions on where to pitch your ideas to get some of that customer traction?
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@edward_g thanks, Edward! Product Hunt and Twitter work the best for me! Also some people say about AppSumo, but I haven't tried it due to high comission
Rahul Patel
I'd say each tip of yours makes complete sense. It would be a saviour if I knew these earlier 😊.
Suhas Bhat
You hit that right on the money.
Chuan Tang
That is awesome. Congratulations on the product launches and your 3rd launch.
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@chuan_tang thank you, Chuan!
Jaida Yang
fantastic tips. Thanks for sharing.
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@jaidayang happy to be of help 😊
Alejandro Mascort Colomer
Hey! Nice tips! :) I have a question about it: What stage do you use to validate your idea with an audience? 1 - Before starting developing your product/service? 2 - Along the way you're developing it? 3 - During your mvp presentation (near from launching)?
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@alejandro_mascort_colomer Yeah, great summary. Straight to the point!
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@alejandro_mascort_colomer good question, Alejandro! We have a small validation during competitor analysis before starting to develop a product. If there're products on the market and people are ready to pay money for it, then it has a right to exist. The main validation comes from beta-testers / early-bird launch (Along the way you're developing the product)
Alejandro Mascort Colomer
@basv Interesting! So it could be summarized as: if there are products on the market: - you have an initial validation of it to proceed if it’s a totally new product: - validation comes along the way being confirmed with your beta testers Thank you! 🙌🏻
Shaur ul Asar
Awesome tips. Thanks for sharing this much useful information
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@shaur_ul_asar thank! Happy to share 😊
Uday Jumle
Hey Sveta, Can you please shed more light on validating the value proposition bit?
Suresh Sharma
Amazing tips to evaluate product market fit
Raul Silverstone
Amazing tips @basv! Thanks for sharing!
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@raul_silverstone Thank you! Happy to share 😊