Johan

Johan

Building Hoardo.com

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Growth, design, and automation at a Copenhagen-based venture studio. I build side projects, test them in the wild, and scale what sticks.

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Johan•

11d ago

Feedback on side project that suddenly gained +1000 users

I m currently working on Hoardo (www.hoardo.com), a simple web app I originally built to solve my own storage problem. The short backstory: after a move, a wedding, and a baby in one year, our storage room turned into chaos. I first tracked boxes and their contents in a Google Sheet, which worked until it became painful to use on mobile. So I turned that system into a small app for myself: rooms, boxes, items, and search. I recently shared this story in a Reddit community for organizers and it unexpectedly went viral, bringing in 1,000+ users in a short time. At the moment the product is free and web-based. My current thinking is to keep it that way and only consider monetization later by building a native app with a very cheap subscription if I reach ~10k users. Would love feedback on the product and whether that path makes sense, and what you d focus on validating next.
Dhruv Bhatia•

5yr ago

What's your favourite remote work setting?

Where do you like to work from: 1. Home 2. Coffee shop 3. Co-working space 4. Beach 5. Something else I love working from coffee shops
Brandon Gaille•

5yr ago

What is the best marketing growth hack that you actually used and saw results?

Here is one of my all time favorites... Writing Pillar Statistics Posts to Get Loads of Quality Passive Backlinks I have used a pretty simple formula to get over a 1000 unique referring domain backlinks every year. Step 1 Find the keyword statistic phrases in your niche that have a search volume of 50+. For example, if you had a dog blog or website, then some of the phrases would be; dog bite statistics, dog owner statistics, service dog statistics. Step 2 Look at the first two pages of Google results and identify the post with the most statistics by looking at the titles. If the highest number is "37 Dog Bite Statistics," then your post title would take it a notch higher with "50 Eye Opening Dog Bite Statistics." Step 3 Compile a great blog post with a list of 50 stats and organize them for easy scanning. Every time a news reporter has a story about a dog attack, they go straight to Google looking for some stats to include in their article. They typically click on the Google result with the highest number in the title. After they grab a stat or two from your post, they link the stat on their article back to your post. What's your best growth hack?
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