SaaS Manual Launch Metrics
Wow, it's been a super cool day yesterday 🙏🏻. I announced SaaS Manual on Product Hunt without a ton of expectations and the response has been amazing.
Before diving into the metrics though, have a look at the picture above. I took this yesterday evening at the sea in The Netherlands, just too good 🌊☀️.
Now let's dive in. In the spirit of being fully transparent about the process of building SaaS Manual into a fully-fledged product, let me share the metrics I have so far:
Email signups
289 folks 🚀 have signed up to the SaaS Manual list. 289 folks who are curious about how to build SaaS products. Welcome each and everybody. I am super happy you joined this adventure.
Website visits
Between yesterday and today, 1.1k individuals 👩🏽💻👨🏽💻 have visited the SaaS Manual website. Whoop whoop and most came from the Product Hunt announcement. While I don't have any conversion tracking setup, this means that ~25% of the visitors joined the journey, wow!!! You can dive into the metrics here: https://plausible.io/saasmanual.com
Product Hunt
SaaS Manual made it to #9 on yesterdays launch day 🎉🙏🏻. It hovered around #8 for a long time even. Nothing what I expected and I am super happy about this. As of now, 225 folks voted for SaaS Manual, thank you all ❤️.
Twitter, Reddit and Indie Hackers
I shared the announcement on Twitter and gained 18 new followers on my personal account. The SaaS Manual account has 9 followers. Hi wonderful people 👋🏻. I also posted the announcement on this and this Reddit thread and Indie Hackers.
What's next?
I am planning to share https://saasmanual.com on Hacker News coming Tuesday (October 20th, 2020) as the last bigger push to get the word out. After that, I will exclusively focus on actual lesson content.
The first lesson will be how to build a product landing page on Notion (this is what https://saasmanual.com) currently is and it works amazingly well right now. I'll share the tools I am using, like Cloudflare, Notion, etc. which helped me get started with this.
Take care and until the next update!
Congrats on achieving this milestone!
Did you do anything to promote your product hunt launch? 255 votes is great!
Hi Alex, I will properly write about what I did in another update, that said, here already some things:
During the day, several folks reached out offering me to get the post upvoted to #1-4 on PH. Cost ranged from 115,- to 2500,- UDS. I declined all since the point of SaaS Manual is to be transparent and honest about the process.
Feel free to ask any more questions if you like.
That's really helpful, thanks