My team and I released Wavium on Product Hunt on Monday, and I thought I'd share a little bit about our success and what we've learned. In less than 24 hours, here were the results:
๐ค 350+ users
๐จ 14,000+ email subscriptions to Wavium newsletters
๐ฅ 1,600+ visits to our landing page
๐ 300+ publications
How did we do it?
๐ด No sleep for 36 hours
Product Hunt is based on the west coast, which is 3AM EST, so we ended up not sleeping and stayed up all the way until the end of the next day.
๐ช Building an early-access email list a month prior to launch
Outreach via Twitter and organic reach enabled us to get early sign-ups. We also ran ads, but found our conversion by just following writers was extremely high - we didn't even ask them to sign up, just followed them!
๐ Bug testing & hot-fixes
The entire weekend leading up to the launch on Monday, we tested the platform and addressed all of the bugs we found. During the release, we also implemented hot-fixes to address some bugs or inconsistencies in the platform to ensure everyone had the best experience.
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Hi Dylan,
Uclusion is already blogging on https://medium.com/uclusion and https://dev.to/uclusion and its a pain for me to port from one to another and keep them in sync. If Wavium could send to a newsletter and ALSO at the same time publish to Medium, Dev.To and wherever AND sync up if I publish again... Then I would be using Wavium tomorrow.
somebody better run with this idea now
That's a great point. We currently have migration of content from other blogging platforms in the works, but you raise an interesting point in trying to get the content published onto the other platforms all from one place. Thanks for the feedback!
there is a belgian startup, storychief that handles this for you :)
love your LP! fresh & crisp
Congrats, that's awesome! I love your demo video, btw. Straight to the point and easy to follow.
You mention that you got good traction just by following writers? Can you elaborate on this strategy? Was it just like, hey I'll follow this guy on twitter with my Wavium account and that's it?
Primarily following writers on Twitter, sending them direct messages when possible, liking tweets that are of interest (in this case, show they're good writers), joining writer groups on Facebook, LinkedIn, or even just reaching out to book clubs.
Nice idea and definitely something hitting on current trends. Kinda funny, but really all blogs should have built in newsletters. Wordpress kinda has this, but it doesn't promote it that way.
๐ฅณ Congrats and thanks for sharing! Looks like the hard work paid off with jaw-dropping results. Wavium looks amazing! Well deserved!