Wall St Rank #buildinpublic Update (week 2)
Staying accountable with the Wall St Rank #buildinpublic update. Here's a recap of my scandalous night time activities last week
🎉 Wins
- New revenue $ 829
- Avg engagement up by ~45 seconds since news feature release
- 18 new trials for the premium tier
- 160 new free users
- Organic traffic is up slightly
- Kicked off a pricing experiment
- Started dev for blog and FAQ on site
- Created content plan for new Blog and Learn sections
- Created an opportunity to pitch a college finance club
- Friend of a friend sent him a photo of WSR featured in a magazine
- Launching a side hustle to fund this side hustle
- 90% done with site + promo video
- Entered the 1st batch of lemlist's #boostrappedfamily
- Met some cool people already
- 7/7 sessions of breath work
- 7/7 sessions reading https://lnkd.in/gy8U9Pvr
😬 Losses
- Revenue churn $ 117
- People are missing the CTA for Free Trials
- Uncovered structural flaws in the codebase, requires refactoring
- NDA sign-off delay with dev team slowing down roadmap
- Didn't have an adequate test plan
- 5/7 slept past midnight
- 0/7 days of exercise
- Scrambling for time
🧑🏽🎓 Learnings
- Need to leave more time for testing
- Backlinks are useless without 1st doing Onpage and Technical SEO
- Don't outsource SEO until you know what you're doing
- ROAS on Tik-Tik, billo.app + boost $ > Influencer marketing
- Discovered a potential growth hack using Yahoo Finance
- Time for user research with Harrison Reilly and Voiceform
That's it for this week 🙏🏽
