Upvotes & Likes could make you, or break you.
I have been reading this thread and realised a serious flaw in Humans.
https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/don-t-make-stuff-for-makers-c929f279c5
We like Admiration.
In the digital world of Social Media, its Likes and Upvotes.
This goes for every sector of social media.
A lot of us strive to be
- gilded on Reddit.
- Upvoted on various forums and subreddit
- Liked on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
so on and so forth.
I have noticed a similar trend in the IH community. I'm guilty as well.
If a post/product doesn't get as many likes or comments as I expected on Product hunt or IH, I feel dishearted and eventually decides to drop the project and move on with another idea.
Now my belief is that if a certain post doesn't do well in a certain forum, I need to find a different audience.
What is your next step if you don't find your validation from the audience you expected something?
I don’t require validation from my fellow IH members... they’re not necessarily my target audience! It can also take awhile for people to learn you’re around to stay, that you’re working hard, and maybe will get used to seeing your updates and such. Many people also just read and lurk and don’t upvote or like. Those things take time, except for lighting strikes. I do it because it keeps me going and accountable to the big nameless void that is “Maybe Someone”. I validated pain points and assumptions with user interviews and surveys. The rest is gravy
Thats definitely true.
It is really important to understand where a product's Audience hangs out.
How do you approach random people who you feel are in your audience?
email? Telegram? twitter?
My audience consists of podcasters and podcast listeners, so 1 in 4 people are potentially in the audience. That makes it a little easier for me to post publicly. I usually get a few people who are very interested, they become champions, and they help to bring other folks to me.
It’s been tough going on the podcaster side, I need to reach out to them directly, but then again it’s easy to find them! So I’ve started a podcast to talk about my project openly. It’s going to go through all the growing pains of other people’s podcasts and I’m sure I’ll make some good friends along the way and feedback about my project.
I’ve joined various user groups and becoming part of the community, and participating. That takes time, and people get to know you a little.
Podcast is pretty popular right now... you've chosen a popular niche.
ah, I see. You have made yourself the target customer. I would wonder that must have helped you a lot so far?
Just made the first episode last night, but it gave me an opportunity to post the link for it in a group I’m in. It got some complete episode listens, and so I’m in the door. Hopefully will get some feedback directly, and I’ll be trying different calls to action to measure which work (site visits, etc)
This created some back pressure on me to complete my landing page too.
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