After 2 years, we pivoted 3 times and it looks like we will pivot 1 more time. I think pivots are essential for startups to survive. What is your story? How many times did you pivot with your startups? P.S. Our product: https://www.bumpy.app
For MakerBox (products for Indie Entrepreneurs), we tried a lot of freebies: 1. Check-lists
2. SEO articles with value
3. Demo-versions of products - 30 tools from MakerBox Tools (full list is 600+) - 3 Frameworks from MakerBox Frameworks (full product is 50 frameworks) So far, 3 Frameworks from MakerBox Frameworks had the best performance. We got 100 users in 2 days. The reason is that it was a complex end-product itself. Today we're launching a free marketing week challenge! Excited about the results. Did you try challenges as a lead magnet? https://www.makerbox.club/market...
You can praise your product a lot. But if you had the opportunity to interest a prospective in just one sentence. What would you say about your product?
Let me start! Advice:
Start building your audience ASAP and #buildinpublic Why?
By doing these, you get support, feedback, and even first customers. These are the core things for Indie and Solo entrepreneurs in the beginning!
Here are mine: 1. Reach 1K users for https://softacquire.com/ 2. Get 10 paying customers at Softacquire
3. Reach 1K followers on Twitter
4. Earn $500 from https://phlaunchchecklist.com/ 200+ actionable tips to prepare for the Product Hunt launch What are your goals?
A simple question for the PH community. This year, would you prefer to have 2x more time (for family and personal projects) or rather have 2x more money?
According to multiple reports including Bloomberg, Adobe and Figma are set to finalise a deal for the purchase of Figma for a whopping $20 billion! What do you think of this deal, does it make sense, do you wish Figma would stay independent? Update: Since writing this, Adobe have confirmed that they are in fact buying
With so many builders out there, which do you think does it best? I've been using webflow for the past week or so for my newsletter blog and it's been an awesome experience.
There's probably tons of advice I wish I had but if I could go back I would tell me that failure is necessarily a fail, we can learn from it and take those learnings to our next journey
Hey Product Hunters We all know that building audience and community is a superpower. Building a personal brand also pays off: more people support you during the launch, you can easily find beta testers, and validate new ideas. I went from 0 to 4300 followers on Twitter in 4 months. Here're 15 one-sentence tips: 0-100 followers 1. Use DM to find like-minded people. 2. Treat your Twitter account like a product: set up a value proposition, tone of voice, and "competitor analysis." 3. Set daily targets on posts and replies (ex. 3 posts, 30 replies). 100-1000 followers 4. Make weekly content planning. 5. Experiment a lot. 6. Get inspired by new Tweet formats from influencers. 7. Re-use content: 1 thread can be divided into 10 1-liners. 8. Don't be disappointed with low engagement, it happens even with big accounts. 9. Engage with big accounts right after they post smth (Notify button will help ) 1000+ followers 10. If you want a loyal and active audience, respond to comments (not only with GIFs haha). 11. Be a human, with all this AI flex, people want more life content. 12. Don't post just theory, post your experience and examples. #buildinpublic 13. Analyze what content works better for you and double down on it. 14. Try to go viral: analyze viral content examples and implement them. 15. Experiment with your bio because the conversion from visitor to follower highly depends on it. Try to implement at least 1 advice today and see how it's going Do you have any tips to add? ________________ If you want to learn more, here's the article about growing from 0 to 1000 in 50 days based on my experience https://blog.makerbox.club/1000-...
I think the question is a very straightforward but a tricky one! You are given the ability learn and master ANY skill in the span of day. The logistics don't matter, it will be done. Which skill do you choose?
Introducing, for the first time ever, Product Hunt Rewind! Makers on Product Hunt in 2022 continued to shape the tech narrative and launched tens of thousands of noteworthy products for other tech enthusiasts to discover and now it's time to take a look back. Starting today, you ll be able to see how your contributions throughout the year helped shape the community in a Wrapped-style experience. Look out for an email in your inbox, or simply open the Product Hunt mobile app (make sure you ve updated to the latest version). What's on your #ProductHuntRewind2022?
Why am I talking about it? Because Twitter is our Top-2 traffic source for www.makerbox.club, requiring a $0 budget. Consistency and personal brand pay off. Here're the learnings: 1. Niche down
2. Treat your Twitter profile like a product
3. Create a content matrix
4. Mix professional and personal
5. Don't spam with your product
6. Focus on your experience, not on the theory
7. Don't be a copycat
8. Connect with people
9. Be kind
10. Experiment a lot What would you add?