Need guidance from indiehacker hustlers
Hello Community,
I have been building something powerful and intelligent for global startup communities.
It is the automated startup content curator that publishes the recent startup updates on news, announcements, funding alerts, tips, tricks after analyzing thousands of content on internet, social media trends and other filters.
I was testing with closed network before launch and withinga week we got enough traffic (1.5k+ pageviews, 900+ unique visitors) and a lot of good feedback on the platform and most of this traffic is from twitter and facebook. Now, I am looking to scale and reach out to more and more startup people. FYI, the platform is www.startuparound.com
I need help on this scaling and strategies for this. I know this community has great players who have been to this situation. Looking forward to your thoughts.
Thanks,
Daxeel
Nice work on the launch. Getting the first few hundred visits from social media takes a lot of work.
For context, what is the business model here? Do you want to license the technology out or build a big audience and sell ads? Or something else?
Depending on who your target market is, the best ways to scale this will vary quite a bit.
First scaling the platform and trying to build an audience. The target market is startup people, entrepreneurs, startup eco-system enablers, etc. Thinking of selling ads through buysellads. Any thoughts? We today crosses 1800+ unique users, 3300+ pageviews in 8 days.
That's great!
I would also consider trying to capture email addresses and send out a weekly newsletter. A lot of social media traffic is "fly-by" so it helps if you can get some people coming back through an email newsletter.
As for growth, just keep doing what you're doing. It takes time to grow a content platform. Maybe try incorporating more viral elements in the site so users have reason to share?
Thank you for so many tips and help. Yes, I am doing newsletter and collected 27 emails as of now.