What's one piece of advice you would give to a first time maker?

Get started as small as possible, iterate as fast as possible

Don't forget to do what you like doing. It's easy to get lost in all the advice, and end up building a business just in the hopes that it will grow. It's ok not to be hyper efficient or hyper focused. It's ok not to grow revenue as much as you'd hoped. It's ok not to build a community. It's ok not to build a notion freebie. It's ok not to do SEO. But nothing will be ok very long if you're doing things you hate doing just to make a buck

Start talking about your product 2 months before your launch. Build the hype and the partnerships so that you have a cushion to land on when you do launch.

Launching gives the best validation. Many of us get stuck in the perfection loop, and never launch the product in the first place.

Hey Aron, I have a google doc that I can send you with my Producthunt Strategy. Did you know the Twitter link of your Producthunt profile isn't working?

great ideas 💡

thinking so cool advice to be.

Solve one pain point/problem at a time and try not to build for all. Once the idea is validated using an MVP (Never miss the "M' in MVP (Minimum Viable Product)) then only move forward with building the actual V1 product.

prepare a deep research before launch, make an action plan and feel good 🌟

make sure you're solving an actual problem before building how to do this? Ask people the right questions: 1. what's the hardest thing about [doing X]? 2. tell me about the last time you encountered a problem? 3. why was that hard ? 4. what, if anything have your potential customers/fellow makers do to solve the problem 5. what don't you love about the solutions you've/they've tried hope it helps

Don't start with complex products. If you have a great SaaS idea in mind, keep it before validation. Validate the idea with a simple prototype (for example, content product). If you have customers there, then you can start building SaaS 🚀 Example ⬇️ You want to make a marketplace with Notion products. Don't start with the marketplace part. Instead, you can start with collection of templates, resources, and remarkable makers and try to sell this curated list. If you sold it, start building a marketplace!

There is no product that market itself. Do marketing. No "that feature that will market the whole product". Do marketing.

Fail fast

Speak to the people you are solving a problem for AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!

I thought that this discussion was about One Piece :) Advise would be to multiply the projected costs (or time required) by 2. Divide the expected revenue by 3. 1/6 of the the 'optimistic' profit forecast is the more realistic number.

Be open to criticism and always attach importance to feedback to improve the product

There are some great suggestions already in this thread, especially around collecting feedback constantly (pre, during and post release) from as many stakeholders as possible and acknowledging that no product can market itself initially (if its successful it will develop a viral loop, but you have to get it out there first). I would add, from a build side, be iterative and scrappy. Early days, you need to validate that what you're building both solves a problem and the problem is big enough for someone to use a completely separate solution for. Getting something out there will give you far quicker and more valuable insights, plus allow you to build a better product long term than trying to get it perfect at the start.

Nine out of ten startups will fail. This is a hard and bleak truth, but one that you’d do well to meditate on. Entrepreneurs may even want to write their failure post-mortem before they launch a business.

Give yourself a break. Sometimes while working all the time, networking, researching, analyzing, creating we tend to forget to rest. And what I've noticed for myself is when I let myself rest a bit and take a different (outer) perspective on the situation, I tend to get the most effective solutions and interesting ideas.