Sanat Mohanty

Sanat Mohanty

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Building Launchbrew.co
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Sanat Mohanty

7mo ago

We lost a $50M deal. Here’s why—and what I learned.

A few years ago, while working full-time with an IT services firm, we lost a $50M deal with a leading telco in the GCC.

We had built early rapport with the head of their technical team.

So much so, we deployed senior solutioning leaders into their office for over a year.

Our team helped:

Catherine Norris

3yr ago

Would you take fewer vacation days in favor of a 4 day week?

I love having 28 days of vacation in Germany--but I think I might trade a few of them to have a 4 day work week! What would you prefer?

How to reach out to potential hunters to get your product reviewed?

We are launching in a few months and want to get the product reviewed. Whats the best way identifying the hunter and engage them?
Sveta Bay

3yr ago

15 one-sentence tips to grow your Twitter audience faster 🚀

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-...
janvikaur panesar

3yr ago

What does social media in the future look like?

Everyday, we are undoubtedly evolving as tech-enthusiasts and I believe social media is going to be a huge disruption in our lives. Do you think technologies like AI, VR, Metaverse would greatly influence the upcoming dimensions of social media. Would love to hear your perspective on what social media holds in the future?
Sanat Mohanty

3yr ago

What books did you read in 2022 ?

Hey guys Quick throwback - what books did you read this year ? I finished just 2 books : The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Currently reading: My Gita by Devdutt Pattanaik The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Lodovico Sella

3yr ago

What is your favorite tool for taking notes?

Note-taking apps are a solid addition to any productivity suite and can do wonders for your information-storing capabilities. The purpose of note-taking is to ensure that you can capture the essence of a set of information so that you are not burdened with memorizing everything words by word. What is your go-to tool for note-making? Mine is Apple notes, especially after the new update!
Sanjay Somashekar

3yr ago

How do you plan on keeping yourself productive/motivated during this holiday season?

I'm trying to keep myself productive by planning out and working on simple tasks that will help me achieve my goals for 2023.
Aaron O'Leary

3yr ago

What are your 2023 goals?

2023 is just around the corner, what are some of your biggest goals? My top two are: - Build income from a side project - Land some food writing gigs.

3yr ago

What’s your new hobby that you recommend to other people?

I personally love archery, it helps me improve my balance and focus, and of course it's fun to shoot arrows at something, even if it's an empty target.
Ezgi Aydın

3yr ago

How do you get back to work when you lose focus?

It is the thing I struggle with the most. I usually get up grab a cup of coffee and get back to work but it doesn't always do the trick for me. So what are your tactics?
Dawn Veltri

4yr ago

How are you growing your email list pre-launch?

I see a few of you posting stats each month about your email list growth. How are you growing your email list pre launch? Purely with Ship? Twitter? On your website? Within your communities?

Apart from PH, where all have you launched your product?

Hey! I would like to know which micro/macro platforms you folks use to launch your products. I have heard about - Smoothie ( web3 alternative of PH ) - Reddit - Hacker News - Beta Testing If you are part of specific Slack, or WhatsApp communities of early adopters, do share. Context - We've just launched on App Store and are looking to launch on platforms to get initial traction. Edit 1 ( I'm adding all the suggestions shared in the comments ) 1 - Beta list - https://betalist.com/ 2 - App Sumo - https://appsumo.com/ 3 - Life Timo - https://lifetimo.com/ 4 - Stack Social - https://stacksocial.com/ 5 - Rugless - https://rugless.com/ 6 - Betafy 7 - Betpage.co 8 - Show HN 9 - Submit Juice 10 - IndieHackers 11 - https://getmakerlog.com/ 12 - Kickstarter 13 - startuptabs.com 14 - startupbuffer.com 15 - crunchbase.com 16 - f6s.com 17 - startupproject.org 18 - startupstash.com 19 - startupranking.com 20 - https://www.g2.com/ 21 - https://stackshare.io/ 22 - Slack groups - Growth Marketing Pros, Indie Worldwide, and Growth Hackers Slack 23 - www.startups-list.com 24 - 10words.io 25 - startupresources.io