I posted a link to HackerNews today and got about 150 downloads in 2 hours.
And the post became the first one on the home page:
https://news.ycombinator.com/news
"Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown"
It's my first time to experience this, so I think I should share with fellow indie hackers!
Hey. That's awesome.
Would you be up for sharing the analytics? Approximately how many website visits did you get? How much % converted into downloads? How many looked at your pricing page? How many follow up emails? Revenue Growth?
(Disclaimer: I'm also working on a markdown related app, but I'm not yet ready to launch it on HN)
Yes, happy to share. Just checked different data of yesterday:
I'm completely fine to work on a Markdown app as well. The market needs lots of different Markdown apps.
Very cool! Tables in Markdown are the very definition of a pain. 😄
Nice. Markdown is definitely a keyword that HN likes. I was one on the top with a similar topic. Got 30k visits, 3 sales and a lot of feedback - positive and negative. Later had to close down due to no interest and high server costs (I did it properly). I learned that I accidentally stepped on a HN buzzword and didn't actually find a valuable business.
Seems you did a better job than my post :)
I think the HN post is good for raising awareness of a product, I'm not expecting lots of direct sales for it.
I got 3 sales. You got 1, but with 550 downloads!! I would consider yours much-much more successful :D
Nicely done!