It's Monday! What are you trying to get done this week?
Hi everyone!
My co-founder and I are trying really hard to publish our landing page for our Twitch Extension this week. Some work to do on the backend for some link-ups that we want working but otherwise ready to go!
What about you? 👇👇
It's school holidays so I am trying hard to finish a phone call with out the kids butting in... Daddy can you....
Day 1 is a write off.
Yup been there done that! Good luck with the kid swatting 🤣
I feel totally sad and unmotivated today, then I'll try to work just a little...
Take the day off - always tomorrow 👍
Releasing the ever beloved dark mode for https://thesidekick.app/
Dark mode is a pain, but hey anything for our users, right? :)
Ha Ha - well I guess so, but I have a confession to make, I tend to only use light mode....
me too but we have some true dark mode die hards :P
Cool, looking forward to it!
It's marketing week for me so I'm working on content marketing: shortlisting keywords and writing blog posts. Also migrating my docs away from Notion and self hosting it so I can improve my SEO.
What tools are you using for the SEO work? Have you signed up to @RobertoDigital's newsletter - it's super helpful for SEO tips! https://rankmakers.net/
Cool will check that out!
I'm trying to avoid paying so making do with:
I ignored ahrefs offered free tools, thanks 👍
I launched a service. Then I found many things to fix and update. So I have to do!
Ha ha well that often happens!
Hey Max, I'm setting up a blog for my gamified habit tracker https://habitsgarden.com/
Hopefully, it will drive organic traffic in the next few months 🤞
I literally just bumped into your product today - looks really cool! Good luck with the content 😀
Thanks, I appreciate your kind words!
If you launch your Twitch extension on Hacker News and need some tips, just ping me - I ranked #1 with 2 posts recently 😊
That would be awesome - we still have a way to go before things are ready though 😀
More templates for blog sites and portfolios
Nice and welcome to Indie Hackers 😀
This week I want to get 3 blog posts shipped for my "just released" website.
And posting here for accountability?
Good luck! Absolutely - try and find a place to share your progress, it really helps with accountability!
I'm working on BotMeNot but I'm currently focused not on development work, but more so on working on newsletters that I'm planning to send out.
That looks like a really useful product! Are you going to market to this kind of community?
I can't say with complete certainty yet, but I think so.
This week I'm taking a break from programming, and focus my efforts on writing docs and doing SEO, mainly for https://adminkit.io/
Have a great week everyone!
Are you doing the Coding Week/Marketing week thing?
If you're looking to learn a bit about SEO I recommend @RobertoDigital's newsletter - https://rankmakers.net/ Lots of great tips and tricks on a load of SEO topics
No, that doesn't really work for me. And thanks for the suggestion, will check it out!
Thanks for the mention @MaxwellDavis!
Hi @paullaros, nice to meet you! Let me know if there's anything I can help you with related to SEO 👊
I’m working on my startup. This week I hope to begin finishing up the material for my investor proposals
Good luck with the funding search!
Doing some work on the IH homepage this week. I want to put more focus on the main list of posts, visually. I also want to replace content in the sidebars with more useful stuff, e.g. groups.
I've been on here a few months now and didn't really know about groups until recently. Is their main function to get rid of some of the noise for people digesting the content?
I wish I could launch my first Google ads to test my timetracking app (https://cronocloud.com) with real users this week.
That's a big milestone for me🤞
In a similar place - but we're only looking to get the landing page up! Good luck with getting your app up this week 🚀🚀
This is the perfect kick off to my week!
This week’s goal: complete the user sign up process.
Thanks for posting this - it forced me to figure out what I’m focusing on (and truth me told, my Asana task board isn’t always helpful 😬).
Best of luck on your landing page!
My Trello board is a mess too - my cofounder and I this morning literally went what are we working on this week again?! 🤣🤣
Hope you manage to get the sign-up process done this week 😀
Good luck on the landing page :)
On my side, I'm trying to grow my DevOps newsletter (https://www.devopsbulletin.com/)
What are you doing to try and grow it? Lots of helpful people around if you need some ideas...
Nice! Good luck with the landing page!
I'm launching the product I've been working on for the past 4 months: https://www.unblokd.com/ - a place where people learning to code can get help when they're stuck
it looks like codementor. I will give it a try :)
Fascinating product - got me thinking about what the marketing equivalent would be 🤔
Are you launching on Product Hunt? If so I'll keep an eye out 👀
Seems interesting, I want to learn code
I've also put together this database of places where you can learn to code:
https://airtable.com/shrTwo96zdnlx8pre
I have a Free Resources section on the site where I'll list all of these 👍
Great to start a week with many things to be done. Do you guys use any tools for planning your week?
I myself will focus on three things:
We use Trello - but not that effectively, one of my tasks this week is to clean up the trello board! It operates in a Kanban style but sometimes we do things outside the steps and forget ones we were meant to have done!
That seems like a lot of tasks - I hope you're a full time Indie Hacker!
thanks, no I am not fulltime hacker. I have my 9-5 job and I do indie on my free time only :)
If you're on Twitter I've put together a Twitter list of people in the same situation if you need some support/inspiration - https://twitter.com/i/lists/1500676743648067589
Happy to add you if you're active 😀
thanks, it sounds great. I will be happy to be with that list
I am trying out different marketing strategies for my MVP online marketplace called vtuberdm.com - personalized videos from vtubers
That's cool - a bit like Cameo then. I guess your customers are the vtubers themselves...
Yep, but with features created for vtubers.
That's cool - I might make some reference to that on the landing page, it wasn't immediately obvious for me.
Good luck with thinking about the marketing strategies - might even be worth asking on IH for ideas...
Thanks Maxwell about your feedback. Appreciate it
Yeah the marketing is difficult when I initially started but thankfully I know where my clients are and the problem I am solving.
Awesome 👍
Will you also do a big launch this week, or launch quietly?
I built an MVP for a 3D printing shop in the last few weeks at https://www.3dcityprint.com/EN . The idea is that people can order their own street/city as a 3D print. The MVP is almost ready, now working on the logistical side (contact with suppliers, want to do this as print-on-demand) + marketing ...
The landing page is part 1 of a 3 part launch - part 2 is the soft launch (beta) and part 3 is the proper launch that'll be all singing and dancing 😀
Good luck with finding the supplier!
Hope you'll get it done this week!
I'm trying to get up the landing page + demo for my email archive and content extraction tool.
Also, I had a few ideas over the weekend I want to do some brainstorming about.
Looking forward to seeing the results!
Try and not get caught by the shiny new object syndrome! (Which I frequently do!)
So true! I already had to write down two ideas I had over the weekend.
Will try. Looking forward to finally seeing your landing page as well!
Tell me about it me too! I think everyone will be disappointed 🤣
It will be good!
Trying to add 35 new subscribers to Coinletter.
Additionally, will try to have a push in the organic marketing - will try to publish 5 blog posts and integrate them into content I can publish on reddit, here and other platforms.
Good luck! Why 35 specifically? 😀
Cheers! 5 a day. :)
Makes sense 🤣
I just created free chrome extension tab pack for automate tabgroups in chrome .
I am frustrated with creating tabgroups again and again.
Try to inform people as much as possible
Have to start with new plan, since the google update has released rank for our keywords have dropped.
I try to work on important tasks instead of doing something just to be busy.
Sounds like a really busy week - good luck!
I'm working on https://envsion.io, a tool that helps UX Researchers create clips of key moments from their user interview videos in seconds, without having to use professional video editing software.
This way they can share those clips with their team and stakeholders for better alignment.
Goals this week for me are:
Great niche! I hope you manage to get everything done this week 💪💪
Thanks 💪🏿!