Day 3: 30 Days of Growth
It's 3 days into the #30daysofgrowth, we can do this! 💪
Name your product and...
✅ What did you do yesterday?
🏆 Yesterday’s results
👷♀️ What are you doing today?
It's 3 days into the #30daysofgrowth, we can do this! 💪
Name your product and...
✅ What did you do yesterday?
🏆 Yesterday’s results
👷♀️ What are you doing today?
Project: careermove.io
Goal: 100 applications for sprint challenge
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Day #02:
✅ What I did yesterday:
Promoted the sprint challenge on LinkedIn, Twitter and IH
🏆 Yesterday’s results:
1 new submission (goal: 100)
👷♀️ What I’m doing today:
Post on Reddit
Send email to ~2000 mailing list
🙏 Where I need help:
Spreading the word!
Would be very grateful to anyone who shares a link to the challenge
https://forms.gle/RRQShKKvQs3gE3YJA
Today was good.
✅ Built out more of the podcast part of my site and integrated their topic tags with my screecasts (example here)
✅ Embedded a second podcast with audio and transcript. It's more text than any other page on the site!
✅ Recorded 1/2 my next screencast
✅ Created IH product pages for both my Learning Machine and Code and Bootstrapping podcasts. There's a lot to fill out though, so I only wrote a couple of updates for each. I'll try to add more this week.
⚗️ Tomorrow, I'll finish my next screencast recording, and add at least one more podcast transcript to the site.
For Brighton Indie Hackers - Goal to get to 150 meetup members
✅ Started a mailing list and tweeted about it
🏆 1 new email subscriber (must try harder, lol)
👷♀️Going to post my next meetup event to a local tech community website and share on LinkedIn
For Rosie.Land - Goal to get 4k websites visits and 100 email subscribers
✅ Sent out an email
✅Wrote a blog post to publish today
🏆 Only 20% open rate on the email, discovered it went to spam folders.
👷♀️ Promoting the blog post I wrote - check it out! 🎉The Master Puppeteer Model of Building a Business 🎉Is it HN worthy?
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Project: SalesForFounders.com
Goal: 20 new earlybird email subscribers on the waitlist each day
Full update history here
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Day #02:
✅ What I did yesterday:
🏆 Yesterday’s results:
👷♀️ What I’m doing today:
🙏 Where I need help:
Spreading the word!
Would be very grateful to anyone who shares a link to the page (www.salesforfounders.com/livestream) or just uses this quick Twitter link…
✅ What did you do yesterday?
Fix some tracking time Vs code extension issues
Deploy some landing pages changes to Heroku
🏆 Yesterday’s results
4 New Twitter followers
4 New Stars On Github Repo
👷♀️ What are you doing today?
Make some design adjustments on the login page
Try to add the most productive time of the day functionality of day in dashboard
Add Offline Tracking functionality
What product is it?
It's a vs code extension that your time spent on writing code and you can visualize data (like most productive day, most used language, chart dispaly your coding time in a day and others data ) in the web app. also with in the web app you share your public goals with like minded people and rewards your coding time
https://www.indiehackers.com/product/habitscript-2
Growing plausible.io
✅ What did you do yesterday?
Yesterday I was working on showing more stats in Plausible. What's cool is I was featured on https://builtwithtailwind.com yesterday which drove a good number of visitors to the site.
🏆 Yesterday’s results
2 New trial signups!
👷♀️ What are you doing today?
This morning I opened a pull request to add a Plausible badge to tddbin.com (the author is a customer and a friend). I hope they smash that merge button :)
I don't know if you saw, but I posted this for you - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6551548565037166592
Thanks :) I haven't used Linkedin in ages so I missed this post.
That's great you got featured on builtwithtailwind! I'm very bullish about Tailwind's growth, and that link may become more valuable in the future.
Agreed. What a wonderful tool that is
Danger World (https://danger.world)
✅ Made a LinkedIn company page. https://www.linkedin.com/company/taormina-innovations-llc
🏆 Crossed the 100 installations mile-marker on both Android and iOS! At least I hope on iOS. It was at 98 and Apple Store reporting runs a little behind.
🏆 86 user accounts!
👷♀️ Working on multiplayer!
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Project: PanelJam.com
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Day #03
✅ What I did yesterday:
🏆 Yesterday’s results:
👷♀️ What I’m doing today:
🙏 Where I need help:
Do you post to Pinterest? Might be worth a shot?
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Thanks for the tip!
As for social media, it’s only very recently that I’ve taken this shotgun approach, so it’s too early to tell just how well it’s working. I’m not sharing to specific communities, though that’s something I should explore more (especially with Facebook where nobody sees what you just share to your page). Posting to reddit I’m sharing to specific subreddits in my niche, and it’s the same for 9Gag, or DeviantArt...but I need to do more exploration on these platforms and learn how to best engage with other communities.
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Yup! I think if you can find that subreddit that really will appreciate what you have to offer, growth will come. Rather than those who are just posting just to post for anyone to see.
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CloudSPRT (https://www.cloudsprt.com/?ref=indiehackers-30-day-growth)
✅ What did you do yesterday?
Fixed sign-up flow as a certain flow seems to have an error.
Fixed blog posts that were causing a 500 response.
Started SEO lookup for blog post ideas.
🏆 Yesterday’s results
None that help the underlying metrics but increased a solid foundation to boost future growth.
👷♀️ What are you doing today?
Fixing automatic helpdesk creation tool to speed up the onboarding for new users.
Create a draft of the blog post.
Formspree community
✅ What did you do yesterday?
Engaged with a tweet about a project we're working on (an OS Hugo theme for bloggers)
https://twitter.com/formspree/status/1145349924424429569
🏆 Yesterday’s results
Twitter @formspree: - 15 followers! :( :( (I guess you got to break down before you build up?)
Twitter @colevscode: +1 follower
Newsletter: +2
👷♀️ What are you doing today?
Mostly customer support and some product work today.
https://www.michaelagreiler.com
✅ YESTERDAY Made and send newsletter.
🏆 RESULTS I had around 260 people on my website. Got 3 replies to the newsletter.
👷♀️ TODAY Worked on next blog post. Worked on interviews that are coming soon.
https://www.hustleup.io
✅ YESTERDAY Worked in blog post.
🏆 RESULTS No trackable ones.
👷♀️ TODAY Worked a bit on YouTube video.
Project: https://retargetkit.com
✅ What did you do yesterday?
🏆 Yesterday’s results
👷♀️ What are you doing today?
Don't know. Lost my 9-5 job today :( Thinking about how to survive with family.
Oh no :( Would you make a post on IH saying what you are looking for, links to portfolio of some sort, location, etc? We can then try sharing?
posted on IH and tagged you
Oh, no! That does not sound good. Did you lose it today?
Do you have savings? Well, figuring out what to do next is most important.
I wish you all the best.
yeah today. not too much saving. I can only survive for 2/3 months.
Oh, that must be stressful. I hope you figure out soon what is next.
Do you know anyone is looking for php/laravel/reactjs developer?
No, I don't at the moment. But, if you have a twitter account, and you write that you are looking for a new position as php/laravel/reactjs developer, and ask for people to retweet, I am sure they will. Also, add hashtag #indiehackers. It will get retweeted there.
I surely can retweet it too. Twitter often works great for this.
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Yeah I'm looking for a job. I'm a PHP/Laravel developer having experience on Reactjs.Over the last 4 years, I made email marketing app, page builder, deployment service tool and 4 micro service tools for my company.
As my side project, I built https://retargetkit.com and https://larakits.com ( larakits is almost done. I was about to launch)
👩🏾💻 WIP
Envoy
✅ What did you do yesterday?
🏆 Yesterday’s results
📝 What are you doing today?
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Yeah, I actually went to a breakfast networking event on Monday. I like it because the people who attended was serious since it was so early. Still, I lean towards groups that are more purpose or task-centric than networking for network sake.
Right now, I'm focusing on my network. I've been heads down for too long. So it's due time to check-in w/ folks & sees how's life been treating them. Kindness goes a long way.
For the short-term though, I'm quick to ask for advice. Genuine advice seeking tends to invite intros. Also, check your office for old business cards laying around. Find them on LinkedIn and go from there. Have you attended any conferences, workshops, webinars or courses in the past year? That's another set of folks you can reconnect with.
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Gotcha. @jas_hothi what are some of the groups/organizations your favorite industry experts following? Also, you can ask hosts of private groups/association to recommend groups, esp if you don't qualify or fit their membership. You'll be surprised at the # of groups that don't advertise.
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Rob Moore
Floom (https://floom.app)
The easiest way to monetize SaaS products
✅ What did you do yesterday?
Yesterday wasn't great. I worked on a pitch deck but struggled to find the best story to tell investors.
🏆 Yesterday’s results
But, we did get our first order! This product (https://market.floom.app/wavve-templates)
👷♀️ What are you doing today?
✅ YESTERDAY I finished v1 of the new "top milestones" newsletter, tweeted out a screenshot, and enabled the newsletter for new signups.
🏆 RESULTS were that so far 60 people have gotten the new email!
👷♀️ TODAY I'm going to wire up some instrumentation to measure how much traffic is actually coming from the new newsletter. Can't just blindly assume that it's a good thing that will automatically work well and be useful to people. And I'd rather not send email unless it works really well.
✅ Yesterday I worked on a dating app all day that's going to be launched in the next couple weeks. We actually are in the process of planning an event now, kinda exciting!
Also set up our goals for Pulse Metrics for the rest of the summer, now we just gotta get users...
🏆 Welp kinda the same as above. Also built a landing page for the app and set up a portal for signups.
👷♀️ Today I'm going to start reaching out to businesses that need technical help (trucking today!) in hopes of working with them more in the future. Also helping a new coworker get up to speed on communities to join so that we can understand more about the web and mobile analytics landscape for Pulse. Hopefully getting in touch with some dev shops and marketing agencies to partner with Pulse for the future (today will simply be figuring out WHERE to find those people)
Project: vozli
Goal: MVP
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Yesterday:
Today:
Day 3 / 30 : www.powai.xyz #30daysofgrowth
✅ Facebook ad is ON till 9th July. ($6)
🏆 +2 email subscribers (22 / 100)
👷♀️ Check analytics (demographics etc) to check which segment of the audience is attracted, so as to create a persona.
👷♀️ Create an image/meme to share on social media.
👷♀️ Follow-up with the sticker guy.
Project: https://www.saaspegasus.com/
Metric: Sign Ups
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✓ Yesterday
💪 Today
📈 Sign Ups: 23 (+2)
Hey looks interesting, how do you differ from some of the other Django Cookiecutter projects?
Thanks @hamishirving!
I'm not sure which specific projects you're referring to, but the key differences I see between this project today and the open-source ones that I was able to find are:
More generally, I think there's a key philosophical difference between a premium-style thing that you pay for versus open source. As the maintainer of something that people are (theoretically) paying for - I have a much higher incentive to be hyper-responsive, fix issues that arise, keep everything up to date, and continue to add features over time. Whereas the open source model (which I love and am not critiquing) more commonly has people throw something over the wall and then for the most support is "best effort". So I'm trying to attract people who don't want to wrestle with running into build issues, dealing with out of date libraries, etc. and just want something that works and works well.
Hope that makes sense!
Makes a lot of sense thanks! I think the benefit of having someone to support the project is a big benefit over open source, not sure I saw that mentioned anywhere on your site though? 😉
Ha! Fair point - I should definitely add that somewhere!
Project: flowist.io
Goal: Deliver the MVP
✅ What I did yesterday:
Wrote the backend for a user's projects and wrote tests to ensure authorization was in place. Also updated my landing page copy to see if I liked it better!
🏆 Yesterday’s results
Got some interest in the landing page and might have a first user (when I deliver the MVP)
👷♀️ What are you doing today?
Write the rest of the backend, and finish authorization. Maybe update my landing page copy again?? haha.
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