Search to Play is a social cataloguing platform for discovering and tracking video games — inspired by Goodreads and Letterboxd, but made for gamers.

I was wondering if people have a concrete way of tracking their productivity? Are you using a specific metric - like a number of working hours/task completed? or a tool to show you how productive you are? or is it just your own feeling of accomplishment? Productivity, for me, is very intangible and I would love to know how you know / monitor if you had a productive day or not. Let me know under

Programming is an interesting job as well as creativity. One know a programming well is like entertainment for him, because it works as we design. Comment down how much time you spend on programming? relating to your work, interest or research.

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-...

We're all different. For some people, coming up with new ideas (products) is a system. For others - inspiration. Let's share the experience

You have signups, but how do you make sure that you have the product-market fit?

Hey hunters, I'm making a list of books or podcasts which are really helpful for entrepreneurs. What will be different about this list from every other list? It will be directly made up by founders like you. Do share!!

After over a year of Indie hacking, we've finally hit my first Indie Hacking goal for http://senja.io... $5K MRR Biggest learnings: ##1. Ship fast, fail fast Since we released Senja, I've updated the app over 2,000 times. We're working in a very competitive market with a very low moat, so instead of building just another product, we decided to create the best product in our space. That meant: listening and building customer requests trying things nobody else is doing shipping fast and failing even faster Now we have a product that is one of the best tools in the market, and because our users love the product so much, word of mouth has started to take off. Focusing on product primarily instead of marketing meant that it would take much longer for growth to kick in. But because we have 100s of happy customers and they keep on recommending us, growth is starting to ramp up. We're also constantly experimenting with our marketing. We've tried dozens of things, from shitposting on Twitter to partnering with website builders. A lot of the things we've tried have failed horribly, but the few that worked have worked really well. ## 2. Separate Engineering and Marketing The biggest mistake we've made marketing wise is probably building our marketing site from scratch with code. That meant every change to our marketing site would lead to a back and forth between me and my cofounder. He'd need to change something but couldn't till I was free. Because of this, we couldn't add marketing pages and other resources as quickly as we needed to. Our SEO and content marketing have suffered. Adding a headless CMS didn't help either. Whenever we wanted to try something new, we'd have to build it twice. Once in code, then in our cms. Now we're rebuilding our entire marketing site with Framer (releasing this week!) so that all marketing can be done independently from dev work. ## 3. Start Reporting Up until two months ago, I didn't understand just how powerful reporting is. For most of Senja's life, we tracked signups + customers per day and also asked people where they came from (search, social, ads etc). But we never had concrete reporting in place. To prepare for the road ahead, last week my cofounder and I sat down and spent a day creating reports and my mind has already been blown. Now we know: which marketing channels are working best for us. how long it takes the average user to go from signup upgrade. how many users go from paywall to upgrade how many users we can upsell who our top personas are And much more. If I could go back and do one thing differently, it would be have concrete reporting in from day 1. # Next steps I'm feeling extremely optimistic about the future. SEO is still one of our best performing channels, so we're going to be shipping a lot more help guides, resources and blog posts in the upcoming weeks. We now get over 500 signups per month but less than 10% of them upgrade. So we'll be focusing more on customer success too. We're going to get much more aggressive with our marketing. We'll be: going toe to toe with our competitors reaching out to twice as many people through social media, cold outreach et cetera launching new things every month running many more experiments collaborating with many more awesome creators. As always, we'll be sharing every interesting thing we learn and try in public The support from the build in public community so far has been overwhelming. We'd never have gotten started without Twitter and Indie Hackers. The inspiration, motivation and critique from the community is what's kept us going for a year. Now I'm feeling better than ever, and I'm ready to take our little business to the next level.