72 hours after launch, 1,617 unique visitors + vanity metrics breakdown

3 days ago, I launched Virtual Mojito - a side project built with Notion that curate resources around virtual events...

Vanity Metrics Breakdown
👍 14,135 impressions and 636 engagement on social media. LinkedIn and Twitter contributed 62%
🌎 1,617 unique visitors. The US and Hong Kong combined exceed 58%
😋 12 new subscribers and 12 new listings

🚀 This is my no cost, minimal #startup journey:

It took me 12.5 hours to compile the database and combined Notion with other #Nocode tools (such as ImproveMX, Zapier, and Airtable)
Published on my personal social media, groups, Slack and listing sites
Interact with my followers every few hours and review the dashboard of Bitly and Cloudflare

🙏 How can I do better

The Substack capture field takes a few seconds to show up. I am considering to switch to Chilipepper
Call-to-action of the listing is not clear. Will try to better visualize through other Notion blocks
I will also try to create some related content. For example, 70+ Zoom alternatives; Top 10 virtual events in July, etc.

It is still a fun #nocode side project. I'll spend 2-3 hours a week on Virtual Mojito to excite you. thanks for reading!

Felix Wong

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on June 5, 2020

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Cool project! I look forward to following your journey.

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  Thanks @jetsetcitizen love to see yours too!
  
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Thanks for sharing! Two asks:
1. Could you post a link to "Chilipepper?" I'm trying to learn more about what it is and how it could replace Substack, but I'm not able to find it anywhere.
2. You shared some vanity metrics, but what are the meaningful metrics you care about? I certainly appreciate the explicit callout on the "vanity" nature of these, but I'd love to learn your thoughts on what the value metrics are for something like this.
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  Hey Andrew! Appreciate your kind words :)
  
  Re 1: Chilipepper is now a popular plugin for Notion, there you go https://chilipepper.io/
  
  Re 2: Thanks for pointing, I actually didn't formated my post well. What makes me excited at the moment is No. of new tools being listed, No. of new virtual events, and newsletter subscribers. Moving forward I'll measure return users and readers.
  
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    Neat! Thanks for the link.
    
    As far as the metrics go, here's what that means to me:
    
    New Tools = Additional value being provided continuously
    
    New Virtual Events = Ongoing timeliness and immediate relevancy
    
    Newsletter Subscribers = People who want to keep receiving this type of value over time
    
    Return Users = People who got enough value to come back
    
    Readers...I'm not sure actually. What's the importance of this one to you?
    
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Congratulation. Interesting to see that LinkedIn was your best social channel. Did you post to your own feed or mostly to groups?

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  Thanks @ckissi I spend daily on LinkedIn and most of my connections are super active as well :) I only post to my feed, no group
  
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Congrats on the launch @felix12777.... and thanks for sharing these insights. Looking forward to seeing how you grow this an evolve!

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  Thanks @gordon for supporting. Still little step. Keep you posted!
  
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Thanks for sharing Felix! Those are good learnings :)

kevon

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  Awesome @kevon more learnings to come ;)
  
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