Considering "Building in Public"
I've been wondering if I should commit to "building in public" with blogging & tweets. I've been on a slow dev cycle for a few years (complicated reasons) & about to ramp up pace of releases & marketing considerably.
I need to get feedback from people on business model & the app but don't have user details captured to be able to reach out to them.
I'm concerned about this only being appropriate for very early stage products - in some ways Touchgram is "early stage" but it's been on the market since late 2019 (with a couple of pivots).
Same here, I am also thinking about doing 'building in public' for my NoCode Builder Flezr.com
Hey Andy,
The only feedback that really counts is that of paying customers.
Building in public is only going to attract other likeminded "indiehackers". It's a way to build a support network but it's not really useful for getting paying customers (unless you are targeting indiehackers).
Focus on getting paying customers first and foremost - their feedback is what you want.
well if your project is open source just make a github repository and share the link with the world. :)
Pedro
Whilst I have released a lot of open source over the years, including many samples of small bits of tech that I use in Touchgram, the main product is definitely not open source. It's an app, iMessage extension and backend.
I would advice you one thing. Focus on 80% of the customers. Don't try to make 100% customers happy else you will burn out.
Don't deviate from the initial vision you had just because someone on social media advices not too.