🤔 — How Often Should I Post Product Updates?
I've currently got 3 small products here on IH, here, here, and here.
Here are some high-levels on what they're about:
- YEN is a b2b saas product, venture-funded.
- CEO's Brain is a personal newsletter that I share once a week to > 22k readers
- Twin Camera is a very small
indie app/ "side project" that I just created this weekend here on IH.
I've been updating YEN once or twice a week, based on things that are happening in and around the community, company, and project. It's about the same for 🧠.
The 3rd one is just picking up a bit of steam (not much, tbh) but I'm unsure of how often I should update it.
This is a bit of a meta question I suppose and I know that there's not a "right" answer to this, but, I'd be curious to hear what folks think and the cadence they've created for their own projects.
Thoughts?
I decided to post one update per month. In each milestone I try to write down the most interesting thing that happened to my project during the previous 30 days.
is once-a-month working for you? is that enough to keep your followers and community engaged?
I think so. But like you said there’s not a right answer 🙂
do you track views? do you track any metrics that would give you perspective?
Uhm, are we talking about IH milestones? No I don't track anything at the moment, but I see they get upvotes and comments and that's good enough for me.
cool. appreciate the thoughts! always trying to learn how others keep their community in-the-know!
Hi John,
IMO you should update frequently, even if it seems there's not a lot of traction. I'm saying this from a VERY selfish reason :)
I've been going into project profiles and reading the milestones/achievements and learning about the variations and expectations I should have of what success means.
I love what you're doing and love following your journey.
Cheers,
Jonathan
Great name BTW ;-)
very cool! is there anything specific you'd like me to cover?
I'm a metrics guy, I love seeing the numbers over time,
I also love growth hacks and the.... you guessed it! metrics!
What you did and how it affected the numbers.
cool. i like connecting work with the results (data)!