Promoting indie hacker tools on my newsletter
Folks,
Last week I published the first edition of Remote Jobs Center Newsletter, including jobs listed on the website, also with carefully curated tools, resources, articles, inspirations, and news to 600+ subscribers. Currently, the open rate is 20% and 5 people left. You can review below with the link:
https://remotejobscenter.substack.com/p/weekly-edition-001
As preparing this week's Sunday edition, I want to spare the first 5 slots from the "Tools we loved this week" section to support this community and projects. Already picked 2 while reading shares about struggles for growth; the first one is Storycreator and the other is Charts Factory.
Of course, right now I don't have any power to shine a big light on the projects, but I want to start this as a ritual from the beginning and continue as I grow with the project. I value content, daily progress and have a long-term goal, rather than quickly racing with job boards or current trends for listings.
Let me know for filling these slots.
Edit: Discovering great tools in the community, glad I asked. Please keep sharing, all tools will take their places on the upcoming editions.
Edit: Published Weekly Edition #002 📰https://remotejobscenter.substack.com/p/weekly-edition-002
Lemme know if you think divjoy.com would be a good fit. Have a lot of founders using it to build their MVP, as well as freelancers using it to speed up client-work.
that 8237 founders are smart! Great tool, that dashboard 😍Happy to meet Divjoy, adding to the newsletter.
Awesome thanks! Just subscribed :) How are you liking substack so far?
I really liked creating the newsletter through Substrack. I'm a new user, still exploring each day but it gives a good user experience, including clean UI, with stats and detailed settings. Very customizable and fast. I'll keep using it through future editions.
Nice, thanks for the info. Been meaning to try it out. Are you finding that you get many subscribers naturally through the substack directory? Or do most come from your marketing efforts?
Right now marketing efforts, and very little data. After publishing the first edition, I discovered a setting for "Allow listing on Substack.com" now it's checked, so we'll see with the next editions.
They feature 50 publications as Top Posts, 25 for Paid Publications and Free Publications, each. Points attached under the headings "372 internet points."I don't know that means exactly but maybe "hearts" in the published article, also people are commenting as I see. That's good.
Nice, thanks for the insight! Looking forward to seeing the next post :)
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Thanks! I actually found your Node auth project helpful. Going to be implementing that as an export option soon.
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Shout out to @boraoztunc for reserving space for the community. I think a lot of us could stand to do that with our projects in one way or another.
Great work @boraoztunc!
Do check out Plausible Analytics. It's a modern and easy to understand alternative to more complex website analytics tools such as Google Analytics. Plausible allows site owners to track some of the most essential website stats and metrics without affecting the page weight (1.4 KB script only) and without the need to ask for a cookie or GDPR consent (no cookies used and no personal data tracked). Let me know what you think.
I'm amazed by each tool and also with their website executions, great job both with the tool and the website Marko. Started my trial and adding Plausible Analytics to the newsletter on the next Sunday edition.
That's great to hear Bora! Thank you and I hope you will find Plausible useful. Let me know if you have any questions.
Hey @boraoztunc this is brilliant
How long does it take for you to create a piece of content every week?
24/7 a week :) Glad you enjoyed the newsletter. For the past two editions, probably I spent ~15 hours in 7 days.
I already have a steady flow of content through a 10+ year RSS archive. I like to read and follow up stuff on broad topics. So finding content for the newsletter is already a spent time for me. I just build a mind-set for specifically about this. Thinking, curating and editing them all week, Sunday making the final touches and publish.
I’m late, but do check out my remote user testing platform https://www.crowdheavy.com/.
I wanted to make running usability tests as easy and affordable as possible while paying my testers a fair fee via CashApp, instead of PayPal 🤠
win-win! 💸 adding to the newsletter for upcoming editions. good luck!
Hurrah! Thanks!
Hey Bora, great initiative!
A couple of days ago I launched getscrapbook.com which is a growth tactics database consisting of 250+ tactics for every step of the funnel. Hope you'll like it ;)
From the demo database at the homepage, it looks like a very detailed one, providing very curial information and tactics. Which we all need at some place in the funnel.
good luck with the growth 🌱Adding to the newsletter for upcoming editions and following the progress.
cheers 🙏
Awesome man. Checkout PipFeed.com, let me know if it would be a good fit.
It's a simple reading app with a powerful personalization engine. We got featured on BetaList today.
All the best for your substack
As a long-time RSS user and archiver, I love reading on various interesting topics, curating articles and of course in this noisy digital world, trying to reach good ones. I already joined the waiting list and will become a tester.
Adding to the newsletter for upcoming editions, good luck.
Thanks you so much for joining the waitlist. I am always looking for advice and feedback. Please let me know what I can do better.
And thanks a lot for adding to the newsletter.
Hey Bora. Looks awesome. Just subbed. And thanks for shining a light on IHers :)
I run Marketing Examples - Like Dribbble for marketers. Real world marketing examples to help inspire startups. Perhaps a good fit.
Fan here! Harry, thanks for Marketing Examples, I learned quite a lot of stuff from your gatherings. Adding to the newsletter on the next Sunday Edition.
Oh that's great. Looking forward to the email. Thank you Bora. Very kind of you
Hey, check out slidetosubscribe.com, a user-friendly subscribe form that works on any website, including Medium, Tumblr and Kickstarter :)
Andrei, this looks great, def giving it a try and taking its place on the newsletter, of course.
While trying the demos on the website, I can't help myself to think that; as you mentioned in the copy ".. by allowing anyone to subscribe with just a slide." how about the whole flow was really with just a slide. Now first I slide and then put my email and hit the send button. Can't it be like, first I write my email and then slide for approval? Two steps and I'm done.
There are two different flows: the first time and all the other times. When you've already used it before, then it's just a slide and you're good to go. Therefore I wanted to keep the UI consistent and show the slider from the start. It also happens to help conversions quite a bit, as swiping is a nice "foot in the door" for the next step.
Who doesn't like swiping:) Understand! Thank you.
Staying sane is important. So, maybe the MndfulDevMag or the books, apps and more we publish can help your readers to stay mentally healthy.
Mental health is very important, and we def take care of it as we take care of our bodies. (This is also a note for myself.)
I subscribed to the newsletter for the future issues and adding MindfulDevMag to the newsletter on the next Sunday Edition.
I know you've already filled the slots for this week, but I would love it if you featured Screenshot Creator for your next issue. It helps mobile app developers create beautiful screenshots + marketing assets for the App Store and Google Play :)
Easy to use and def have powerful customization options, great.
We always have future editions, Screen Shot Creator is taking its place.
Thank you! I appreciate it, and best of luck with your newsletter as well :)
I know I'm a bit late, but I'm working on https://www.justauthenticate.me as an easy to plug in authentication service for getting new projects going faster - I think indie hackers working on an MVP might like it. Just in case you end up with space in your next newsletter :)
I believe we all sick of passwords and the misery we go through with forgetting:) This needs to evolve to its next chapter, completely. I love passwordless authentication
No one is late:) We have future editions. Adding JustAuthenticateMe.
My thoughts exactly!
Thank you! :)
Working on openstartuplist.com
It's a curated list of startups and side project that show their stats openly.
Soon I will publish first interviews with open startup founders as well :)
That would be great insights! a I first heard about this transparency about stats, with Buffer running on baremetrics. And checked theirs now, besides the business and the $116,874 MRR, they have an amazing dashboard design, from colors to typography, card and graph designs... Hope I'll have a chance to integrate for one my projects:)
Adding Open Startup List to the newsletter. Keep us posted about those interviews, I'm following. 🌱
I'd love it if you mentioned Lakebed. In Feb I was just about to go off disability (near-fatal crash), live off savings, and start working/promoting it then the world shut down. I'd love to win a few first customers and not be beholden to disability any more.
The easiest way, IMO, to learn more is watch the video going from Excel files to visual dashboard in real time: https://lakebed.io/#3_minutes.
I wish I knew all these stuff! Adding to the newsletter.
Awesome, thanks!