Setting goals are a good way to motivate us to get to a place we want to be and to also keep us accountable! What are your 2020 goals? Mine are: Write a cookbook Launch my current side project Radiant
Spend more time with family
Read 50 books
I'm just back from a weeks vacation which I used to relax in my own home and shut off for a while. Normally I reserve vacation solely for when travelling but that's not possible right now. How are you spending your vacation time?
I recently launched a newsletter called The Ideas Digest here on Product Hunt and I am using Substack. Unlike others, I do not have any preexisting mailing list to import, I am starting from scratch. Furthermore, I am known in open source circles and front-end development, but not so much in the niche I've targeted with my newsletter. I submitted my newsletter to PH and received a couple of upvotes, as well as a couple of signups. However, I feel as though I could be doing more. Do I just need to give it time and let people naturally find my newsletter or are there ways I can grow my subscriber base without becoming disenfranchised and giving up? I don't want to be "that person" who continually spams their newsletter on sites like Hacker News. Maybe I need to start buying ads, or is that silly for such a young newsletter? The newsletter itself centres around a relevant topic to many who frequent this site, it's about ideas, discussing trends, identifying opportunities and does research into various topics for the reader. I want to give people the tools to discover new opportunities and maybe start something of their own. Just because I can't launch doesn't mean someone else can't.
I've been building The Ops Show, a developer-focused YouTube show/podcast, during COVID and I'm looking at ways to thoughtfully scale it. My stack is YouTube-first with OBS + Zoom recording and then YouTube premiere + Anchor.fm for distribution. We just hit 200 subscribers and are growing about 50 subscribers per month. Would love to hear your suggestions.
For the first time, I'm launching a B2B product. This product is a SaaS sales solution for a niche industry. We've always capped our free beta users at 15, for feedback cycles in my previous B2C launches. However, this product a much higher ticket item and the value itself has significant ROI immediately. I want to charge off the bat. But I'm not sure that's the right move right out of the gates (leaning prob not). I'm curious to hear from other makers who have launched B2B SaaS products and their thoughts about getting their first 1-3 users / customers (institutional level). Should the same methodology apply? (i.e. exchange feedback for payment) Appreciate any insight!
What do you think is the best way to make your newsletter subscribers grow? Maybe offering some kind of free resource? Or by advertisement? What worked better for you?
ICYMI we just announced the Golden Kitties 2020 edition. We have seen so many amazing products launch during what has been a wild year and it's tough to pick. You can now nominate your favorites to win the coveted Golden Kitty trophy. Winners will be announced at our special live event hosted by Casey Newton on the 28th of January. You can also submit a video here
twitter, linkedin, facebook groups, github, devto, behance, producthunt, indiehackers, medium, komunity, clubhouse, IG, twitch, contra, bumblebizz, zoom, xing, meetups, reddit, in person with a mask . . . what did I miss?
Things have undoubtedly changed dramatically and it may be a case of some things coming with us when we go back to normal. For me it will be wearing a mask in winter, I hate the flu and I get it every single winter bar the previous one so if I can prevent it, I'm going to.
Hello, makers! I'm trying to find a problem in content writing that others haven't identified as a problem worth working on. If you write any textual content like articles, blog posts, social posts, or tweets regularly, what's the most painful part about that for you?
