1st page on HackerNews - The Aftermath
First of all, I want to thank @csallen for dealing with one of the haters in the comments of the HN post :)
For those who don't follow me on Twitter, I posted my thoughts on how Zapier/Tray/Integromat, etc will soon become unbundled just like Craigslist.
You can read more on that here.
Much to my surprise a lot of people agreed (a few very much disagreed) and the HN submission started to rocket up with upvotes. I was on a walk while it was happening and rushed back after getting a message from a friend that it was on the front page.
Let's talk about numbers:
25K Users and 26K Sessions. From that GSheet2Mail got 1000 visits.
Finally, 148 New Followers on Twitter :)
Trending on Indie Hackers
Post-launch lesson: traffic came, activation didn’t
I Stopped Browsing Reddit Randomly. Here's the Keyword Monitoring System That Actually Gets Me Customers.
For indie hackers: Outsource marketing or do it yourself?
Interesting.
How many GSheet2Mail signups? That's the number I'd be most interested in finding out. Unless you're not comfortable sharing it--totally understand.
Also wondering why @kamerontanseli didnt share it. actually this is the only number who counts. Page visits are gone tomorrow
Because HN is not my target audience for GSheet2Mail so the CR would be rubbish...
The blog now has 11 subscribers.
GSheet2Mail converted 3 people.
Twitter followers we're the biggest gains :)
@kamerontanseli so if HN is not your target audience, then Twitter followers yielded from it would be pretty useless, right? Since they're (assumingly) coming from HN?
I mean, I suppose you can hope that those non-target-audience followers will actually follow your tweets, and maybe share them with their audience--and hopefully some of their audience is your target audience. But what a longshot...
Celebrating the wrong things can sometimes take your focus off of more important lessons learned from an experience. (I know this, because I've done it more than a few times with various ideas.)
Don't mean to diminish the excitement of what you accomplished. That's definitely a great accomplishment to hit the front page of Hacker News. And all newsworthy accomplishments = good press.
It was a great post Kameron! It really resonated with me - cool to see the traffic stats.
We started down the path of building a "Zapier for data workflows" but have quickly learned that honing in on specific use cases will make it easier to focus and sell the benefits. You're 100% right that a good zap can sometimes start to get too complex and a custom-fit solution may end up being the better option.
@kamerontanseli Awesome.
Could you please link to your HN post?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126455
Ah, the haters. Be careful because the next level is stalkers.
Congrats 👏
Congrats!!!
Nice!
Congrats
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