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Breaking the new feature addition rut and finally launching 🥳!

Hey Indiehackers!

I have been building Scoutraise for the past 5 months and I finally launched it.

I kept adding new features to assure myself of control and to build something perfect, but this post and @dagorenouf meme's hit hard and I've finally decided to launch, there is a lot more that can be done to improve fundraising experience, but I believe that the product already is super helpful and better in many aspects than similar offerings.

Why Scoutraise?

We're a nimble team of one (me) who moves relatively fast and takes feedback seriously. Personally before getting the indiehacking bug, I've been an engineering lead at a fairly large VC-funded company, worked at a VC firm as an analyst, and later was a founding member for a VC-funded company that is still going strong.

Let me know If you have any feedback/advice on the product, pricing, or marketing, or if you just want to chat about fundraising, I’d love to! Reach out to me here or on twitter.

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    The sooner you get users, the faster you are going to improve what you already have.

    With my first two saas products, I made the mistake of building a lot of features and I never got users onboard to provide feedback.

    On my third try, I did the MVP for katlinks.io in 5 weeks, got users onboard, and used their feedback to improve and decide what new features to add. A month or so after launching the MVP we had our first paying user, which by the way, it was @dagorenouf 🤩

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      Thanks, I will give katlinks.io a try too. Sounds promising.

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    Congrats on the launch rajat! Not in the target audience of the product, but judging from the homepage it's in better shape than 90% of MVPs. Makes sense to start looking for your first users before building anything more. Best of luck 💪🔥

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      Thanks for the kind words, and also for the daily dose of inspiration on Twitter.

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    Awesome work, congratulations on the launch.

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    I have been building Scoutraise for the past few months and I finally launched it.

    Having a lot of trouble getting past the first line - how can you finally launch something after only a few months?

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      Hi @disrael, The general advice of the community is to build your MVP in a few weeks and get it in front of people. Whereas, I've been busy building for the past 5-6 months while showing it to only a few people. Hence, the finally :). I've edited the post to define "a few months".

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        The post you link to above is from a guy that was on year three of his product and see this tweet that he is four years in without being able to make a living at it yet. (Thanks for bringing him up though - he is actually quite inspiring.)

        "Better in many aspects than similar offerings" - do not launch with that. I agree that more features is not the problem. The problem is you are still apples to apples with your competition and you want there to be no real comparison because you do X that they cannot.

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          You are right that @dagorenouf is in year 4 of his journey, but I am talking about just launching and not about being able to make a living off of it.

          Thanks for the advice on the messaging. There are a lot of things that Scoutraise can do, but others can't. I'll keep in mind to highlight those.

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    It's important get it out as soon as possible. Congratulations!

    FYI, I'm getting 403 when trying to access https://scoutraise.com/.

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      Hi Sensen, Thanks.

      I have a Firewall in front of my servers to protect from bots, scraping, etc, maybe it is blocking genuine users like you. I have tried to fix it by tweaking a few rules. Could you be kind enough and try again? I have also sent you an email so you can let me know if it persists.

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        Yes, I can access it now. I've also replied to your email.

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