Week 20 building Talanoa — Tweet ads flop, new onboarding, and feature momentum
Here’s what happened this week building Talanoa (my privacy-first email client built 100% local):
🎯 I tested a promoted post on X: $8 for 8,300 impressions, 111 clicks, but 90%+ were on mobile… where my app isn’t available 🤦 Lesson: don’t promote desktop apps to mobile users.
✉️ Set up an onboarding email sequence with Loops.so. Such a powerful tool for indie SaaS workflows.
💬 Received tons of positive feedback this week and some great new feature ideas.
🧠 Learned about BIMI (a way to show your logo next to emails in Gmail & others)
📈 Audience still growing slowly on X & Medium
🧪 Started refactoring UI to make room for multi-account support — highly requested + I need it myself 😅
Full post (with screenshots, lessons, and more):
https://medium.com/@bettercalljohn/users-are-talking-i-finally-listened-and-it-changed-my-roadmap-week-20-d1f2f8d482c4
