How I got 1000+ subscribers & 300 Twitter followers in 2 days

Hi Indie Hackers! 👋

Wanted to share my experience with launching a newsletter on PH.

At first, I've never thought that it's possible to do. I thought that PH won't let newsletters because it's not a web app or mobile app. Sometimes it's just a signup form, and that's it.

But I was lucky that I decided to put my few tweets with simple content, because later when I talked to a moderator, he said that if the newsletter has sample content then it's totally okay to launch on PH.

Then, I was thinking about how to make it look good and all that stuff, but Pete from No CS Degree told me that I shouldn't overthink and just launch.

I spent like 4 hours at night and then launched it. Got featured immediately, and took second place of the day. Despite the fact that the Tweets I put as an example loads like 5 seconds and it looks ugly.

Also I decided to launch on Sunday since the competition is lower this day, and I'm not sure it'd be easy to compete on a business day. Though, if you have a full-featured website, with articles/examples of previous issues, etc, should be okay.

Here are the traffic stats

And here what I got after the launch:

• 1000+ New Subscribers
• 450+ Haven't yet confirmed (probably confirmation went to the spam folder)
• 300+ Twitter followers

That's it 😌

Takeaway: don't overthink it.

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