Day 4: 30 Days of Growth

Earlier @louisswiss gave me a nudge about posting my daily update.

So I thought I would do that for others! 😇

Nudge, come post your update, nudge. :)

@Madamdo @matthewbrown @buttondown @Vayo @cgbeas @castroalves @oguguae @Wawa @helengriffinjr @tyherox @Aadhi @MWoj @CW92 @BenJackson @ibrahimm @jepe_desu @owelcodes @patrickgordon @yang @alchemist @Iliashad @jas_hothi @colevscode @IftekherSunny @robmoore @csallen @mjcarp @Vozli @jwbaldwin

Brighton Indie Hackers
✅Post meetup to a local tech community site
🏆Email list: 2 (+1) | Meetup Group: 48 (+1) | 17 website views.
👷‍♀️Post meetup group to my LinkedIn profile (was meant to do this yesterday, doh)
👷‍♀️Post meetup to a LinkedIn Brighton Group

Rosie.land
✅ Publish blog post
✅Share blog post to my network
✅Submitted a blog I wrote to MakerMag

🏆 Webstats: 269/4000 views. Email list: 26/100 subscribers.
🏆Got a blog post I wrote published on MakerMag, that was quick! 🎉
👷‍♀️ Sharing the MakerMag article :)

Project: careermove.io

Goal: 100 applications to career move sprint challenge

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Day #04:

✅ What I did yesterday:

Sent email to ~ 2k subscribers

nothing else (life got in the way)

🏆 Yesterday’s results:

32.9% open rate
1 applicant to careermove sprint challenge

👷‍♀️ What I’m doing today:

Promote on Twiter

✅ YESTERDAY I added some tracking so I know how many clicks we're getting from our new "top milestones" emails.

🏆 RESULTS from yesterday were non-existent. Tracking stuff doesn't directly help you grow and is often just a form of procrastination. 😇

👷‍♀️ TODAY I broke the milestones, whoops. Fixing that now. I also added some stats on post pages, so now when you make a post (including milestone posts), you can see how many pageviews it has.

Bit late to the game, things got busy. But here I am #30daysofgrowth

IndieLink

✅ Changed status of IndieLink to public beta with a IH post

🏆 3 new hubs created

👷‍♀️ Going to promote on Twitter

I'm tracking my growth progress here 👉 indielink.co/open

Day #04

PanelJam

✅ What did I do yesterday?

• Posted to: Reddit, Imgur, 9Gag, Webtoons, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr
• Began to look into influencers (barely)
• Rewrote my landing page copy...going back to being funny
• Set up Google Tag Manager goals

🏆 Yesterday’s results

• 6 new signups (2914 of my 3200 goal)

👷‍♀️ What am I doing today?

• Posting to: Reddit, Imgur, 9Gag, Webtoons, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Pinterest ( thanks for the suggestion @rosiesherry )
• Continuing to research working with comic artist influencers
• Going through the Twitter module of @daviddel "Grow Your Clicks" course

🙏 Where I need help

• Does anyone know good resources for learning how to best use GA goals, or how to best reach out to influencers?

Project: SalesForFounders.com

Goal: 20 new earlybird email subscribers on the waitlist each day

Full update history here

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Day #04:

✅ What I did yesterday:

• added short video recaps to livestream landing page
• nothing else (life got in the way)

🏆 Yesterday’s results:

• 3 new subscribers (goal: 20)

👷‍♀️ What I’m doing today:

• Livestreaming later today (busy work day)
• Goal: 20 new signups

🙏 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…

Oh god I keep forgetting. Imma post gifs later on the site :D

Danger World (https://danger.world)

✅ Posted about hitting 100 downloads on the Play Store. Polishing up the app.

🏆 It got shared a bit by the family. iOS is up to at least 109 installs! Up to 88 user accounts. Got a great iOS 5 star review.

👷‍♀️ More polish on the app. I plan on shipping the new animations as a revision number. Nothing like an app store update to remind people "this app is on my phone".

Developing multiplayer. Posting about breaking the 100 installs on iOS milestone.

helpjoy.io

✅Cold email 10 prospects
✅ Tweaked the value props on the homepage
✅ Testing a variation of registration form
🏆No real change in results
👷‍♀️Drafting blog ideas to begin content marketing

CloudSPRT (https://www.cloudsprt.com/?ref=indiehackers-30-day-growth)

✅ What did you do yesterday?

Fixed automatic helpdesk creation tool to speed up the onboarding for new users.

🏆 Yesterday’s results

Created Blog draft for posting.

👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

Send Cold Email to potential customers.

Product is me
✅ Brainstorming path forward.
🏆 9-5 is not needed at least until next year. What next prep for interviews or learn some ML

👷‍♀️ Nothing. It is a holdiay

❎ Still working on the screencast. I had some non-side project commitments come up today so I took a nap and I'll keep working late tonight on this.

✅

• Embedded a two podcasts with audio and transcripts onto the site. (engines vs powerups, automation)
• Made some "pro tip" tweets to drop images of various short, useful Elixir coding patterns to my audience.
• Did some more coding on the podcast part of my site, adding social sharing buttons and setting some non-standard routes (for more descriptive keywords in URLs and better SEO)
• Got my podcast pages approved: Code and Bootstrapping and Learning Machine. Both are in semi-private mode for now.

⚗️ Tomorrow, I'll create a written tutorial based on struggles I've seen in the Elixir forum.

https://www.michaelagreiler.com

✅ Started a Twitter thread that seemed to resonate with people.

🏆 Got 8 new followers

👷‍♀️ Worked on interviews with developers that I will do soon.

https://www.hustleup.io

✅ Worked on several blog posts that might go out soon.

🏆 Not much happening.

👷‍♀️ Still working on blog posts and video. All under the hood. Not much visibility external.

Project: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/habitscript-2

✅ What did you do yesterday?

Fix some tracking time Vs code extension issues

🏆 Yesterday’s results

2 New Stars on Github Repo

👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

I feel so tired today after launching my first MVP and I'll take a break today to boost my energy

Formspree.io

✅ What did you do yesterday?

Caught up on customer support and feature dev mostly. Engaged a few frustrated customers on twitter. That's community development right?

🏆 Yesterday’s results

@formspree on Twitter: +0, still 460
@colevscode on Twitter: +1 to 589
Formspree mailing list: +2 to 839

👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

I'm working on a post to launch our new open source Hugo theme Blogophonic. I wanna research github templates to see if it can be easily distributed that way. Best case scenario I can have a draft for that post ready. Goal is to have it ready for monday or tuesday morn.

I wanna build a list of agency folks in my network to connect with and just BS some.

Also I've got to get three books:

• start small stay small
• the mom test
• authority

Product: SaaS Pegasus
Metric: Sign ups

Yesterday was super productive! I think having the accountability of the #30daysofgrowth challenge really focused me and let me ship a pretty big chunk of work in a single day.

✓ What I Did Yesterday

• Added background task support to Pegasus!
• Released a new version.
• Updated progress bar blog post and demo to link to Pegasus

💪 What I Plan to do Today

• Work on screencast of how Pegasus works for marketing site.

📈 Sign Up Count: 24 (+1)

Sorry @rosiesherry, I might have to drop out of this challenge. Real life emergency came up and will likely be tied up for the rest of July!

https://www.tribepulse.com/
✅ What I did yesterday:
Rebuilt landing page
Posted about the change of direction on IH
🏆 Yesterday’s results:
Only 1 reply 😢
👷‍♀️ What I’m doing today:
Promote on HN and brainstorm other ways to get the word out

Oof good call. Bad couple of days for me -- day job / other commitments have taken priority.

No progress. Aiming for a productive weekend.

👩🏾‍💻 WIP
Envoy

✅ What did you do yesterday?

• Lead gen then warm outreach.

🏆 Yesterday’s results

• traffic - 9
• connections - 2
• subscribers - 0
• responses - 6
• booked - 0
• meetings - 0

📝 What are you doing today?

1. Review/transfer feedback from call logs/DMs/transcripts to CRM/sheet
2. Enjoying 4th of July relaxation & 🍔

flowist.io

Goal: Deliver the MVP

✅ What I did yesterday:

It was more this morning as last night was date night, but I finished wiring up much of the backend and documented the final touches of authorization that need to be in place before it's complete.

Also updated my landing page copy!

🏆 Yesterday’s results

• User visits: 9 (up 350%) from yesterday
• User bounce down 20%!

👷‍♀️What are you doing today?

Celebrating July 4th! (And if I can sneak in dev time, adding Bodygaurd to my Phoenix/Elixir api)

P.S. Thank you @rosiesherry for the nudge :)

Day 4 / 30 : www.powai.xyz #30daysofgrowth
✅ Shared the link to 2 relevant facebook groups.
🏆 +11 email subscribers (33 / 100) (FB ad is also ON)
👷‍♀️ Dump the printer guy. Shift the work to a new shop.
👷‍♀️ Find more groups to post. Tweet.

Project: Task Reminder (formerly Link Reminder)

Goal: make 1 conversion to validate MVP

Day 4:
✅ What I did yesterday:
Really dove into the usage behaviour of users and decided to rebrand to Task Reminder to put emphasis on Tasks instead of Reminders. When people think Reminders, they think of the Siri/OK Google/Cortana way, which we aren't going to compete with.

🏆 Yesterday’s results:
People have started using the app in a way where we'd expect but we still see some people using the legacy remind command. Will need a bit more time to asses.

👷‍♀️ What am I doing today?
Going to make it possible to create tasks in a DM as it seems a lot of people have been trying to do this

🙏 Where I need help
Really want to build a community around Lab Forty Six/Task Reminder. Not sure where to start, would love to get some advice!

Growing plausible.io
Goal: 40 trial signups in July

✅ What did you do yesterday?

• Opened a pull request to add a Plausible badge to tddbin.com (https://github.com/tddbin/tddbin-frontend/pull/57)
• I also wrote a June update for the project: https://plausible.io/blog/june-2019-recap

🏆 Yesterday’s results

1 trial signup

👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

• Promoting the June update on social media
• Other than that, I don't have much time to work on Plausible today