Any growth hacks or marketing ideas?

Yeah. All the advice is to build your list. But what if you don't have one? It's a long term play that you don't always have time for if you want to validate an idea quickly.

I stumbled my way onto a "hack" for hijacking someone else's list, and that's to provide some value to them and hope they tell their audience.

My tweet below got 500,000 impressions because I built a loading icon for MKBHD and tweeted him to show it off. He retweeted and replied. It spurred me on to get a tutorial written and start to put together a course in how to create these loading icons. I'll be launching that in July.

Tweet: https://twitter.com/cderm/status/982570609304580096?s=19

Tutorial post: http://chrisdermody.com/mkbhd-logo-animation-step-by-step-tutorial-in-svg-and-css/

TLDR: "hack" someone else's list by make something for someone with a huge following and hope they tweet about it.

I feel another post coming on about "list hacking"...

Hey ! You can check on GrowthList (https://www.thegrowthlist.co/), it's a platform where startups and growth teams share their most successful growth experiments ad strategies

I am not sure why you did not gather traction on Product Hunt.

IMO, ProductHunt is a great platform and for your intended audience - the developers, PH is just the perfect platform. I suggest you need to figure out a better way to launch on this platform.

We launched on ProductHunt a while back and managed to derive some great results from the launch such as 450+ sign ups and some brilliant feedback.

We've crossed 1000 sign ups recently and we really value the feedback received from the PH community.

We documented our launch story. Hope you find this useful - https://blog.codegiant.io/our-product-hunt-launch-story-5067e2b091fb

I am happy to help you at any stage.

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