Which segment of your project consumes the most of your time?

Vlad Zivkovic
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Hey Product Hunters, what is the most time consuming segment of your project and how do you delegate the time to be more efficient?

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As an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) expert, the segment that consumes the most time in my projects revolves around implementing various strategies to improve a website's visibility and rankings in search engine results. Here are the key areas where substantial time is invested: Keyword Research: Identifying relevant keywords and key phrases that potential users use to search for products or services is a critical first step. Thorough keyword research involves understanding search intent, competition analysis, and selecting high-impact keywords that align with the website's content and goals. On-Page Optimization: Optimizing the website's individual pages is crucial for search engine crawlers to understand the content's relevance. This involves crafting SEO-friendly meta tags, headings, and URLs, optimizing page content with targeted keywords, and improving the overall website structure for better user experience and search engine readability. Content Creation and Optimization: Developing high-quality, informative, and engaging content that resonates with the target audience is a time-consuming but essential aspect of SEO. This includes regular blog posts, articles, infographics, and other multimedia content. Additionally, updating and optimizing existing content to remain relevant and valuable is an ongoing effort. Technical SEO: Ensuring the website's technical aspects are search engine-friendly requires attention to detail. This includes optimizing site speed, fixing broken links, ensuring proper URL canonicalization, implementing structured data markup, and making the website accessible to both search engines and users. Link Building: Building high-quality backlinks from reputable websites is a time-intensive process. It involves outreach, relationship building, and promoting content to gain valuable external links, which play a significant role in improving a website's authority and search engine rankings. Performance Monitoring and Analysis: Regularly monitoring website performance, traffic patterns, and keyword rankings is essential to identify areas for improvement and assess the effectiveness of implemented strategies. Analyzing data from various SEO tools and making data-driven decisions is an ongoing task. Competitor Analysis: Keeping an eye on competitors and their SEO strategies is crucial to stay ahead in the competitive landscape. Understanding their strengths and weaknesses can provide valuable insights for adjusting the SEO approach. Algorithm Updates and Industry Changes: As search engine algorithms evolve, adapting SEO strategies to align with the latest best practices and guidelines is a continuous effort. Staying up-to-date with industry trends and algorithm changes is vital for maintaining and improving website rankings. This is the Website I am working on: https://findanybill.com/
Janine N
At the moment it's our product hunt launch Liffery, which is happening today. Also, we have recently been spending a lot of time on what I call the "verbal product" so everything that helps communicate our internal vision to the outside world. Of course, building a technical product always takes a lot of work, but I guess that's kind of obvious :)
Wiktoria Jaszcza
@janine_nitz Hi Janine, could you say a few words about your verbal product? How does it work?
Janine N
@w_j Certainly! So whenever you have an application there is always the technical product. It is built based on (hopefully) customer needs and then requirements. The verbal product refers to how you communicate your product to different audiences. Although the technical solution is the backbone and doesn't change, depending on which audience you are addressing, you will have to talk about your product differently. You might point out different features or use different vocabulary entirely depending on who you are addressing, but your product is still the same. At Liffery we have coined this the verbal product or product(s) for that matter. Especially when starting a business you also might need to experiment to see which wording resonates best with your audience, so you would only change the verbal product, but the solution in the background stays the same.
Hazel Lim
@vladimir_zivkovic @janine_nitz Why can't I see the upvote button Janine? Would love to support
Janine N
than you @byhazellim make sure you go on the launch page, not the product page PH won't let me link, but the URL is this: producthunt.com/posts/liffery
Henry Walker
@janine_nitz like how you coined it with a name. I imagine it helps with team focus on that outcome.
GpsViewer
1. Product design 2. Competitive product research 3. Code writing 4. Test tuning Among them, product design and code writing take more time.
Deluar Hosain
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Frank Sondors
Front end, Product Design, UX / UI take most of our time.
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I prioritize tasks by their impact on overall project success. This helps me allocate more time to crucial segments and delegate lesser important ones to team members.
@realvladgolub This works for me too. Allocating time based on severity and impact makes me the more productive compared to say, setting a template for time distribution. Context is key
Mohammad Elzahaby
Fixing Bugs. Especially when I don't know wher they come from. After that it is generating growth!
Deluar Hosain
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Hazel Lim
For Narrated Tours (narratedtours.com) it's the build process. I do not have a tech background so it took a frustratingly long time to fix even the tiniest bug. Even then it's still not 100% perfect. For anyone curious it is built using no-code tools AND code written by GPT. Yes, it's been a wild ride πŸ˜…
tawheed abdul-raheeem
At this current time with paylinkz.app it has to be marketing and content creation. Probably because it is not my strongest area
Peyt Spencer Dewar
1. Overthinking various aspects like marketing and planning tasks
Eve Box
Backend programming and building program architectures
Vlad Zivkovic
@e_box Just don't overbuild, start small and improve over time!
Ericka Gonzalez
@e_box @vladimir_zivkovic That's a great tip, I've been in the constant battle of trying not to overbuild or perfect everything
Vlad Zivkovic
@e_box @ericka_gonzalez Every founder have that problem, so you are not alone 😁
Eve Box
@ericka_gonzalez @vladimir_zivkovic Many founders get stuck in this position. As much as possible, create an MVP with minimal code to just assess market demand first. I previously had a market, but I hesitated because the technology was too complicated to work on
MatΔ›j Adamec
As a Product Hunter, the most time-consuming segment of my project is typically the research and development phase. To delegate time more efficiently, I prioritize tasks by importance and set clear deadlines. I also collaborate with team members, assigning specific responsibilities and leveraging their expertise. Regular communication and using project management tools help streamline processes, ensuring optimal efficiency throughout the project lifecycle.
Heleana Grace
Oh boy, that would be scriptwriting for me. We're a video production service, so we take care of the entire pre-production process as well, including writing scripts. I spend so much time getting the perfect intro and the catchiest wordplay only to overthink everything and then start all over again. I guess I manage to be more efficient by stopping myself from overthinking. I like to write out my ideas, organize them, review them a few times, and then let my team look through my writing and tell me what they think should be changed. I trust their judgment and they always get straight to the point, so this saves me a lot of time and stress.
Frank Apap
Marketing, or more accurately thinking about marketing and how to get the word out.
Deluar Hosain
@frank_apap This is really a tough job! But you may share your website here, I will try to help you from my experience.
Apostolos Toptsis
marketing! Trying to figure out AI automation to make life easier!
Azfar
It’s always marketing for me, I build even complex product in days but find marketing most challenging πŸ˜₯
Siddhardha Kancharla
Worrying if I'm describing my product right in such a way that the users feel compelled to try it out. ChatGPT only made it worse.
Himanshu Kumar
Initial marketing of my new startup OpenTools.ai . Getting the first boost always takes time.
Jake 050
designing, writing, sharing. AI tools do the heavy lifting and I make proper changes.
ebill info
The training process involves processing and analyzing vast amounts of text data to learn patterns, relationships, and linguistic structures. This step requires powerful hardware and extensive computational resources to train a model with billions of parameters, such as GPT-3.5. Once the initial training is complete, ongoing maintenance and updates also require computational resources. This can involve tasks like adding new data to improve performance, addressing biases, fixing bugs, and making general improvements to enhance the model's capabilities. However, it's important to note that as an AI model, my responses are generated based on pre-existing knowledge and patterns learned during training, rather than real-time computations. So, while training and maintenance processes require significant time and resources, the actual response generation during interactions is relatively quick. In this way you can generate power from different sources.