Igor Merkushov

Igor Merkushov

Builder of Castells and Apps
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Catalunya, Spain here. Mediterranean developer.

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Igor Merkushov

8mo ago

Verbooster: Spanish Verbs Conjugations - Customizable spanish conjugations trainer

Fully customizable Spanish verb conjugation trainer: • Conjugate -ar, -er, -ir, irregular, and reflexive verbs • Focus on specific pronouns or verbs • Create custom verb list • Use personalized improvement list and smart error tracking to target weak spots.
Jason Howie

9mo ago

What's the worst AI-written email you've seen go out?

I'll go first. A large HR platform sent out an automated AI-written email offering condolences on a prospect's coworker's death, and then tried to hook them into a demo.

I am 36M solo founder with about 6 products under my belt but I am super-scared to promote them!

I've spent exactly all of last year building a total of 6 products, 4 of which are paid.
But I haven't gotten a single paying customer yet.
Channels I've tried.

  • Posting on Hacker News and Product Hunt

  • Paid ads (Google, Instagram, Reddit)

  • Listing on tool directories ("ThereIsAnAIForThat.com" etc)

  • Creating Free tools and sending some related traffic back

  • Asking a couple of people I know to try my products

Each have given me various degrees of success. Rest assured, I have lots of users using the free parts.
Recently I'm trying push marketing; for example recently my girlfriend and I went to a pet-friendly cafe in Bangalore and we got talking with the proprietors. One of them was interested in what I was building and I found myself pitching my product them.
I felt icky and weird since all my life I've been a software engineer and hardly ever someone who sold anything.
What's your experience getting customers, especially the first ones for your product?

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