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Henry Walker
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Great job - good luck with the launch Tibo
Typeframes
Video creation for makers
Henry Walker
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Chances are nobody will care at first.
So you need enough time and money to keep experimenting.
What's the most important lesson you've learned about building a successful product?
Aizhan Asanbaeva
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Is WordPress still a good choice?
I’ve build many many websites for clients over the last 10 years.
Over the last 18 months, it seems like people have stopped wanting WordPress.
Web gone from a few projects a year down to zero.
Alternatives have matured (Webflow, React + Headless CMS, TypeDream…) and developers want to work less and less with PHP and/or the WordPress framework.
I’m curious if anyone else is seeing or...
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I'm an Owl.
My energy always runs into the night.
I can never motivate myself to go to bed early.
I'd choose being a morning person if I could. But can't seem to make it work.
Do you consider yourself more of a morning person or a night owl?
Faith Foster
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Somewhere in the middle for me.
I don’t want investment if it means having an undesirable stakeholder having influence over my work/life.
Going for growth over profit means having enough financial runway to last.
My current strategy is to run a profitable agency that funds development of our own products.
So far so good, but it’s not easy.
Growth or Profitable business model?
Nairi Baghdasaryan, PhD
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How much are you planning on selling the product for?
Validate an idea
Ayoub Douib
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4 things I'm doing to validate my idea faster
Most of my tech experience is B2B high-ticket tech and/or services ($20k+ offers).
I’m currently working on a low-ticket product.
More like $50 p/mo.
It’s a plug-in for web builder platforms like WordPress, Webflow, Shopify…
4 things I’m doing on to validate the idea:
1. I’ve focussed on 1 feature.
It’s tempting to add more because I think it would make the product more desirable.
But I...
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Great if you’re spending maybe $200k+ per month on engineers for a project.
Much less and it’s counterproductive.
That’s just my experience.
I’m sure it’s nuanced.
What are your thoughts on TDD
Sushrut Chafadker
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Up early and get some tasks done.
Then when everyone else starts work, go for a run.
How do you beat Monday blues and start your week positively?
Hashir Ahmed
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If they are selling to the same audience you can cross sell to get more out of your marketing efforts.
How do you handle 2 startups simultaneously?
Brandon Stewart
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Henry Walker
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I find outreach works for medium of high ticket products I’ve worked on.
For low ticket I’m experimenting with landing page building and organic + paid social.
Direct sales is expensive so you need a higher value offer to justify the effort.
How do you primarily promote your product?
DongWook Kim
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How did you come up with the initial idea for your product?
Did you identify a need from research?
Was it a lightning bolt moment?
A combination of the two?
Something else?
Would love to know.
Henry Walker
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Congrats on 1 year - and thanks for the inspiring post. Well said.
1 year of being an Indie Founder 🎉
Sveta Bay
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This is a great perspective.
My take:
1. free is good if you have a powerful upsell. I do like to “try before I buy” sometimes. Free trial is good for me tbf.
2. free is also good if you want to own mass attention, or a massive slice of the market and crush competition. I think people sometimes give away value for free, without being 100% about what they’re getting in return, and that’s...
Why free products aren't cool anymore
Isaac Martin Otim
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For one low-ticket subscription product aimed at Moms, we contacted 100s of Mom bloggers, gave free samples and asked the to write about it.
Work very well. This was a few years ago.
How did you find your first 100 customers?
Mark Sachintha
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I really want someone to invent an AR app on the new Apple headset so that I can run against “ghost” versions of myself from previous days where I ran the same route.
A bit like Mario Kart on the N64.
Is it a Good Idea to Hunt for a Product You did not Create?
Oscar Mairey
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I’m building an app that tells companies how eco friendly their customers are
Explain what you're building to a 5-year-old child.
Sam Lam | Web3 Builder
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I’m curious why you would want to do that, Oscar?
Is it a Good Idea to Hunt for a Product You did not Create?
Oscar Mairey
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