Day 6: 30 Days of Growth

Project: careermove.io

Goal: 100 applications

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Day #06:

✅ What I did yesterday:

Shared on Linkedin and reached out to friends to help share

🏆 Yesterday’s results:

Applications: 11(+2).

👷‍♀️ What I’m doing today:

Writing a blog post to submit on MakerMag

🙏 Where I need help:

Spreading the word!

Please help me share careermove.io to your network

www.michaelagreiler.com

👷‍♀️ Today is a big day for me because after quite some time playing around with different ideas, I know now what comes next. I'll enhance this blog about software engineering with a podcast. This is such a big step for me because I struggled with deciding which way to go. I also was (am) very much afraid of starting a podcast - mainly because I am not a native speaker. But, now I dare to do it. It feels so good. So authentic.

So, today, I worked mainly on the first steps of making this podcast a reality.

www.hustleup.io

👷‍♀️ published a new post and posted on indie hackers about it.

Today I'm reading, listening to podcasts and taking notes. Mostly I read/listen to business & community related things, so these things have a direct impact on my work at IH too. It's nice that it is all inter-connected.

This month I'm working on growing Indie Hackers' milestones feature.

✅ YESTERDAY I didn't do anything to grow the milestones feature. Instead I did a bunch of stuff for the podcast.

🏆 RESULTS were therefore non-existent.

👷‍♀️ TODAY I'm going to do some planning for bringing milestone posters onto the podcast and send out some invites.

Formspree.io community

✅ What did you do yesterday?

• Prepped a blog post for our new Blogophonic theme. Gonna launch it on Monday or Tuesday next week.

• Finally shipped a plugin we've had ready for a while. We're onboarding a new guy so it took a little longer, but I think he's been learning fast.

🏆 Yesterday’s results

@formspree on Twitter: +0, still 460

@colevscode on Twitter: -1 to 589

Formspree mailing list: +3 to 842

👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

Not a lot. I may start a draft on a new announcement / update blogpost for the newsletter.

🙏 Where I need help:

I'd love some feedback on our upcoming Blogophonic post. Check it out here:

>> Blog post draft <<

We're fixing to launch on Mon or Tues.

Also, I have a couple questions:

• Are there better tools for sharing and getting public feedback on drafts?
• How should we promote that post? Doesn't seem great for HN -- any other suggestions?

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

✅ What did you do yesterday?

I fix the API extension issue

I add some new data points and I fix some issues in the Dashboard

I test some offline databases

🏆 Yesterday’s results

404 Not Found

👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

I' m fixing extension issues

I'll test the vs code extension

I'll implement offline functionality on the extension

Product: https://airlist.site
Goal: Get feedback from 20 users about the product

Yesterday: Answered a lot of questions on quora related to problems my product solves

Results: No traffic ao far

Today: Going to write a short blog and see what happens

Project: lifehqapp.com
Goal: 300 trial subs
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Day #06:
What I did yesterday
Answered a few Quora and Reddit questions
Almost finished an article about my top 3 productivity techniques
Coding new timer feature

Yesterday results
I had a small increase in the traffic to my blog and landing page but no subscribers

Today
I will finish and deploy the new timer feature and send out a newsletter probably
Finish my article, put pictures in it and try to get it published on MakerMag

Project: https://www.statsglitch.com

Goal: +50 users in July (including the free plan)

✅ What did you do yesterday?

Extracted a list of most active users and prepared a customized follow-up with them to understand better of why they're using the service (what specific problem it solves for them).

🏆 Yesterday’s results

3 new users (11 total in July).

👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

Day off on Sunday, to keep the balance.

👩🏾‍💻 WIP
Envoy

✅ What did you do yesterday?

• Review/edit transcripts/feedback
• Do discovery follow-up call.
• Book a call for next week

🏆 Yesterday’s results

• traffic - 2
• connections - 2
• subscribers - 0
• responses - 1
• booked - 1
• meetings - 1

📝 What are you doing today?

1. Began HubSpot certification course
2. Onboard/assess leads & prospects' platforms

I'm working on Pigeon for Gmail.

My growth attempt

Yesterday, I spent some time writing up an answer on Quora to “Which is the best email auto follow up tool?”

A successful founder friend of mine told me he has had some great traction responding to Quora questions, so I figured it’s worth a shot.

Typing it up took about 30-45 minutes, and it was actually a nice experience to put into words and come up with a "top 5 reasons" why people reading should use my product for this feature.

Here is the Quora link

Results

It was viewed 9 times in one day! I believe every view, read, and click counts for something! If I did this every day, it could really add up! But it was pretty time-consuming.

However, I think this could and should be outsourced. I’m going to think about that - but I'll write a few more manual ones to get a feel for Quora, what works and stuff.

Today

I'm going to record and share (on Twitter and the blog) a short YouTube video that shows how my product makes a certain interaction really fast for bloggers - and it's something that bloggers can relate to.

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Oh - one last thing - I've been recording each day in the 30 Days of Growth in this Google Doc - I plan to eventually share this out and hopefully I get some new customers this month and can use this as a potential future blog post to show others the growth challenge really works!

Day 6 / 30 : www.powai.xyz #30daysofgrowth
✅ Nothing much.
✅ Stickers came really bad. Using it anyways.
🏆 +4 email subscribers (39 / 100) (FB ad is ON)
👷‍♀️ Remind subscribers to share and increase their chance to win the giveaway.
👷‍♀️ Use stickers.

Project: Danger World https://danger.world
Current Goal: 100 user accounts && Double digit DAUs

✅ App rolled out!

🏆 People are updating and playing the game. 10 DAUs and 91 user accounts!

👷‍♀️ Friend management for multiplayer. Bit of an easier day today.

Project: https://www.saaspegasus.com/
Metric: Sign ups

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This will be my last post for a while since I'm going on vacation tomorrow, but it was a good day to wrap up on! Google rankings jumped back up after making some fixes, and an Indie Hackers feature got me a ton of good feedback on the product as well as many (admittedly, probably low value) sign ups.

✓ What I Did Yesterday

• Added a sitemap and submitted pages to Google index.
• Fixed canonical URLs.
• Recorded screencast: Setting up a new project with Pegasus
• Got featured on Indie Hackers and responded to a bunch of feedback.

💪 What I Plan to do Today

• Nothing! Taking a week off in the Wild Coast. :)

📈 Sign Up Count: 33 (+9!)

See you all in a week or so!

✅ I did some recording of a screencast as planned.
✅ I embedded another podcast with audio and transcripts onto the site. This one is on Space Repetition, its history where it works well and where it's counter-productive.
🏆 I got an invite to moderate a subreddit relevant to my audience.
⚗️ Tomorrow, I'll edit my screencast.