I personally love reading blog posts from indie hackers, so I thought it would be fun for us to share our favorite blog posts that we've written.
If you don't have a blog, feel free to share someone else's blog post that you really like!
And I'll probably select a few from here to feature in my newsletter MakerList :)
Here are a few 🔥 blog posts for Open Startup List:
How using the tools that you already know helped Simple Analytics grow to $5.7K MRR
How building in the open as digital nomads helped Leave Me Alone grow to 840$ MRR
How learning by doing helped BannerBear grow to 500$ MRR
Pieter Levels on how the Corona Virus affected NomadList and RemoteOK
It's been incredible ever since I've started it about 2 months ago, the amount of traction is amazing, I get blog posts written over Open Startup List and it's getting featured on Open Startups "\open" pages.
So according to google this one is by far the most viewed/clicked one:
https://daily-dev-tips.com/posts/how-to-use-google-fonts/
I personally like this one: How to validate your idea with pocket money by @ctw.
Wrote this baby up when we got our first paying users, hope it helps a few out there:
https://tiiny.host/blog/first-paying-users/
Just published this last night!
How I built and shipped my first product: MeetPass. Goes into lessons learned, what worked and what didn't. Also loved writing it because it was more of a personal reflection on my learnings than anything.
https://roland.imprint.to/post/how-i-built-and-shipped-my-first-product-meetpass
I particularly enjoyed writing the Daymind case study.
I wrote about why designing for open source can be so difficult. It reached the front-page on HN and still brings in a steady flow of visits.
I started to write a follow up to it going over some solutions and techniques but I haven't had time to finish it yet.
This was nice. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, I'm happy you liked it!
I wrote a huge 😎 guide for helping newcomers becoming amazing streamers.
I worked hard for two weeks, wrote examples and made a followup checklist-site for people to keep it handy on their phone/browser tab.
The result?
This one gets me thousands of views and is #1 on Google for streamer tips keywords.
Hi! I just wrote my first Blog Post. It's about Lead Generation without a Budget.
Hope you find it useful for your projects!
https://www.makesales.io/blog/lead-generation-the-final-blueprint-for-sme-without-a-budget
Article about Startup Visa
I tend to write a lot about soft skills, but this specific one is about UX / Interaction design, so it might be useful somehow:
https://blog.simbioseventures.com/2020/05/24/interaction-design-principles/
Why Apple should put a second front camera on the iPad?
It is not on a business topic, but rather a little experiment I was curios about. I think you may appreciate it :)
This is my most successful blog post: https://www.followchain.org/list-of-instagram-follow-for-follow-groups/.
It's basically a list of places where you self-promote your Instagram. This is especially helpful if you're looking to grow your Instagram audience either for yourself or your business.
I'm more focused on marketing than product - here's a post I wrote on a couple word change we made to our home page above the fold that had big results when tested
https://www.theamaricandream.com/blog/2019/5/5/on-copywriting-amp-conversions-the-words-you-use-matter
I posted this two days ago, I just came back from a walk with my dogs, went to Wallgreens to buy toilet papers after. Guess what, there was none. Its a fun little blog post that we put together to experiment with some of our ideas. We had 500 visitors the first day. It's kind of fun, I am liking it.
https://www.0browser.com/blogs/how-to-find-toilet-papers-using-headless-browsers.html
What do you think ?
I'm pretty proud of this since getting non-competiting but truly complimentary product founders to team up on cross-promotion is tough. I explain how I made that happen, and how you can too: https://medium.com/hashtag-academy/how-to-replicate-the-viraltag-rite-kit-cross-promotion-success-58432dd104f8
If you see it and if you have a Medium account, the post is SO lonely; would appreciate if you held down the hand thingee at the bottom a few seconds. (Thanks!)
I shared my own technique to choose an idea to pursue: https://www.saasforge.dev/blog/how-to-figure-out-which-idea-worth-to-implement:-a-math-approach
Here's something more personal: Discovering I Have ADHD & What I'm Doing About It
This is one of my favorites. I wrote it back in 2014-ish and just started sharing it again. It's based on the "smart creative" archetype that companies like Google and Amazon try to hire.
https://medium.com/newtheory/the-rise-of-the-smart-creative-eee635b567db
https://dev.to/zolidev/what-makes-you-decide-to-follow-someone-on-github-52ak
Not sure if it's my best, but I think it will be useful to many here https://bloggingguide.substack.com/p/how-to-increase-paid-substack-newsletter
Not mine but I keep rereading it once in a while
The Ultimate Guide To Achieving Peak Performance In Life
I wrote this blog post for non-technical founders (which I am myself). I based it on my experiences of building a tech company with outsourced development: https://blog.vreel.co/five-steps-to-build-a-tech-business/
I got a lot of traction with: The Huge List Of Code You Need To Write To Start A SaaS
Hit the front page of Hacker News!
Great initiative, love reading blog posts! I can already see some very interesting ones in the comments.
These are our most clicked/viewed one:
https://blog.abyssale.com/shared-storage-volume-on-amazon/
https://blog.abyssale.com/early-stage-mvp-my-experience-as-a-cto/
https://blog.abyssale.com/relevant-advertising-networks/
It's right here on indiehackers.com🔥👨🏼💻
The UX of images on a landing page
Absolutely - nice thread! I love reading blog posts as well 😊
I happen to have just finished one. It's about the GRADS Stack: the Tech Stack that we ended up discovering while building Sigmetic.
Check out the blog post here 👇
https://sigmetic.io/blog/sigmetic-grads-stack/
Hello hello, I’ve just started blogging about Content and Commerce:
https://www.joinally.co/post/amazon-is-screwing-over-publishers-heres-how-buzzfeed-is-punching-back
https://www.joinally.co/post/how-barstool-sports-grew-725-in-4-years
Here are some blog posts from GetReviewed.org influencers marketing platform/product reviews platform.
http://blog.getreviewed.org/why-great-collaboration-with-influencers-matter/
http://blog.getreviewed.org/7-horrible-mistakes-youre-making-with-influencer-marketing/
http://blog.getreviewed.org/major-seo-factors-to-consider-for-link-building/
My blog post on interviewing https://blog.openpodcast.xyz/interviewing/
Hey Richard, this is a post I published recently that I'm proud of: https://carminemastropierro.com/startup-content-marketing/
I interviewed 21 experts to get their feedback on what they believe is the best way to approach startup content marketing and compiled their ideas :)
Why Tipping Online Should Be A Thing: https://www.tipalink.com/blog/why-tipping-online-should-be-a-thing
From my blog:
For a client:
I wouldn't say this one is especially good but I was entertained writing it!
https://blog.nickhorn.com/runin-report/
I bought up a misspelled domain that someone with 670k+ Twitter followers posted and fixed it for him and he never said thanks 😢
Here's a beast of a breakdown on how Zapier grew to $50m ARR whilst being fully remote: https://saasmarketer.io/saas-partnership-strategy/
Hi Tom, may I ask you a quick question? Thanks!
Of course!
I will drop you email. Thanks!
This is a great idea @richardchu. I recently wrote 'Building Remote Relationships' and its importance in today's environment.
I hope you enjoy!
My favourite two are:
My best one is about the podcasting industry 🎙
and how it will shine in this decade. I wrote that a few months ago, before the news broke about Joe Rogan moving to Spotify, so my predictions slowly become true - there will be major changes and rise of podcast in the next 10 years.
👉 Link to the article.
Hey, cool idea.
How my blog post ended up as a lecture material on one of the World’s Top 150 Universities
I've shared why it's important to blog, even if you have small audience.
We recently wrote this blog post about social media strategies for small businesses. I also posted it on Indiehacker and got some great responses.
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/tried-and-tested-social-media-marketing-strategies-c49a9e0656
I hope it's worth adding to your newsletter, anyhow I just subscribed to it
Here's my most popular post so far:
My Juicy $3000 Mistake
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