Chris Lester

Chris Lester

Building brands and raising kids
234 points

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Matteo Zumpano

2yr ago

What is your favourite no-code tool?

My favourite tool would have to be my own, Its a no code website builder we are launching soon, Get notified when we launch! - https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
Karthik Tatikonda

2yr ago

9 Things I realized while making $5,000 from my startup 🤯

Hey Makers, Nithin and I started LaunchPedia on Jan 8th 2023 and it's been an year of roller coaster ride From literally making no money in the first 6 months and coming close to shutting down, to making $5000 from our digital products in the last 4 months. Here are the 9 lessons I learned from our journey: It's not wrong to pivot. It's better than giving up. Build multiple small bets, until you know what works Plan monetization whenever you're building a new product Build products that make money, especially when your savings are on line Don't overlook email marketing. Collect email addresses, build funnels and setup email sequences from day 1 Don t delay your launch. Ship fast, validate the idea, get feedback, and iterate. Leverage side project marketing. Build free tools and directory sites to increase your distribution and upsell your paid products. Validate the idea using short term distribution strategies. Ex: PH launch, listing on directories, & Ads. You don't need to build fancy products, you can also build info products as long as it is helping people.
Ryan Hoover

2yr ago

Experiment: If your startup is growing fast and could use $300K, email me :)

I ran a similar experiment on Twitter a while ago and realized I should have asked the Product Hunt community. First, some context: I started Weekend Fund in 2017 while I was still the CEO at Product Hunt. Today, @vedika_jain and I write $100K to $300K checks into early-stage startups (most of which launched on Product Hunt at some point). Our background is in product and community building, but we have a network of over 400 LPs across every domain from data science to enterprise sales. More details at weekend.fund. If you're primary KPI (revenue, MAU, etc.) is growing 20%+ for 6+ months, drop me a note with details ryan@weekend.fund. If you have a deck, please share but we'd also love to chat with founders that aren't actively raising but could use our capital and help. :)
Florian Myter

2yr ago

What is your most unconventional marketing/sales campaign, and was it successful?

Question pretty much says it all I'll go first! Campaign: We're a figma-based form building tool and decided to redesign contact forms we found on peoples' websites for free and send it to them. Did it work: No ... absolutely not. 0% response rate, goes down as our worst campaign ever

2yr ago

Which platform - other than PH and LinkedIn - do you guys use the most?

I'd love to hear about that. For me, it's instagram! By the way, this is NOT a discussion made for just getting upvotes, feel free to vote without upvoting! I really need this info for something I'm planning for my product. Thanks!! Edit: I'm not sure PH tells me how many people voted, so pls notify it somehow if you do vote Edit 2: Just kidding, I found a way to get the votes from the DevTools. Feature request, PH? :D Edit 3: I was just told that - from mobile - the Poll is not visible. Wow, PH! you can do better than this haha. Well, if you're from mobile, please write "X, twitter" or "instagram" in the comments. Edit 4: if you guys want to connect on X: https://twitter.com/gab_creates
Elly

2yr ago

I'm Community Member of the Year!

Let me know if you need support with your launch, I'll be there as a supportive community member! This is the best thing that's happened to me this year Thanks to the ProductHunt team for the honor.