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Project page - https://opus.guide
Challenge - driving traffic to the website.
Just as I said on my comment above, you should try recommending your project organically on Reddit to people who may find your service useful, I've been getting great results that way.
Bingo, here are 2 perfect Reddit posts to jump in and share your great product @augustas.
Found them using Segue, an NLP tool I built to find relevant Reddit discussions based on semantics.
Snapshot tool for making instructions
Screen annotation software
If you or anyone interested in using Segue to find Reddit leads for your product, DM me and I will send you a discount.
Wow, this is really useful, thank you. I'll check your tool definitely.
Hey Augustas! Greetings from Lithuania (assumption based on your name):)
I am not sure what competition you've got right now, but here are my 5 cents:
Hope that helps. Best of luck! ;)
@NikUf thank you. That is truly helpfull.
Greetings from Lithuania as well :)
Nice one. List your Product on AlternativeTo.net.
It's free and fast.
You have quite some competitors, so you might piggyback on their traffic.
Thank you, this is a great recommendation, will do :)
Are customers signing up and paying?
Can you add a little more context? What have you tried yet? What worked, what didn’t work?
Basically what would you recommend to get more traffic to the site - SEO, Google ads, social media.
What works for your site?
My current strategy is to leverage social media by going where my target audience is and trying to contribute to the community. (Like creating a post like this 👀)
I see, and what social media platforms work best?
I just created this random and not very useful website - daystodeath.com.
It will send you weekly updates on how many days you have left to live (if you are living until the average expected life expectancy in your country).
In every email ill try to add some funny information or stories that relates to how long you have lived or how long you have left to live.
My challenge right now is to find the useful, funny and informative stories and info.
Check it out - daystodeath.com.
Project page - https://letsbuildapis.org
Challenge - Find MVP and the use cases to focus on. What is required for this to be useful?
Project: Profit Machine Strategy. I worked with more than 100 companies and startups to maximize their profits.
I combined all of the information in this course.
Challenge: The people who know me buy it but it is hard to sell to other people.
https://www.umutsonmez.me/profit-machine-strategy
It sounds like you need to show more credibility. And this is done by logos (companies you worked with) and testimonials. Try to get testimonials from the people who bought it and put it on the page.
Also, offer a money-back guarantee to reduce the friction/anxiety of purchasing.
Create case studies of people maximizing their profits
Thank you for the feedback! I will add that information.
Project: Experlio. It's a platform to learn from real creative professionals like marketers and designers. We're focused on practical and personalised learning that speeds up the learning process dramatically over traditional methods.
Challenge: It's a 2 sided business. We have mentors and learners (they can also be the same, but currently not as we focused on creating content to suit students/grads), and getting the ratio right is hard... We're starting to build tools for Educator Creators so they can provide value to their existing audience and there's less pressure on us to have the audience already on the platform. So managing our product with multiple personas will soon be our challenge 😅
Project: I'm currently working on ShopNote, it's a blogging platform built specifically for people who want to start an affiliate marketing blog or site.
Challenge: Managing time. Juggling building the product and marketing can be tricky! I've recently tried an approach where one week is focused on product, the other on marketing which has definitely helped!
Because your project is within the blogging niche, maybe it would be best for you to check out some blogging/blogger online forums and join some groups and message the people who fit your audience type. That way the traffic starts coming your way rather than away from you.
Is this your full time focus @austerberry?
Like you said, time blocking is super helpful. I'm not a technical builder, but could imagine the challenge of trying to switch from developing to marketing. I spent the last 5 days building out our roadmap for the next month and that required almost my full attention.
To go a step further on your TM, I have found allocating the most creative tasks to the start of the day can do wonders. The mind is clearer to:
I'm the co-founder of a data management tool called Datalogz (https://www.datalogz.io/) - after multiple iterations of the solution that started out as a data catalog, we're now going to the market with our PowerBI integration to be an additional security layer.
What's tough is finding a few markets & personas that resonate with our solution - it's very open ended right now in terms of ICP's and also industries and markets. When it comes to fundraising, we could come across as unorganized or not understanding our users. Really though, we're just industry agnostic and can work with most data people but also business users. Narrowing it down is TOUGH!
may be concentrate on one industry and one particular department first get as many customers as you can and than diversify your product to other industries.
How many customers do you have right now? Your product is good if you are not getting customers it is sales and marketing issue.
I built a digital memory capsule for parents called Ricordi.
The user gets an unique email address for their child, keeps sending letters, photos, videos, links... whatever they want. When the kid turns 18, they get a website with all the memories in one place. Kind of like a photo storage service/memory capsule/baby book rolled into one.
Yeah, it's not something most Indie Hackers would need, since you are all computer savvy enough to keep track of all of your photos. However, regular parents lose their phones, misplace memory boxes in moves (both of these things happened to me and my sister, respectively).
My main challenge now is, of course, getting new customers. I already have paying customers, people love the product/idea (i still have to do some improvements to the homepage), but i need to branch out more.
Ideally, i would love to find someone who will work on commission. I have pretty low overhead (although, taxes are killing me), and can offer up hundreds/thousands of dollars of commissions pretty fast. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to find individuals/agencies that could sell the product?
Might there be any blogs, podcasts, newsletters for parents you could partner with?
I am working on a static website forms backened called fabform.io
Biggest challenge at the moment is ranking on google.
1: https://timebx.app/
2: I just finished the very first version, I'd call it a prototype and I have no idea how to get people using/testing it. Also my landing page is a bit dull/basic atm.
I created a landing page with Webflow, as it's much easier to iterate and SEO is better: Loggify.app. The app itself then lives at the "studio" subdomain.
I'd recommend you embed some system or mail to give you feedback. I use feedback.fish for this and it' basic, free and great.
First feedback (Bug found): I clicked "get started", was redirected to login, did a browser-back navigation and then was inside your app without logging in.
My notes didn't save also, console: "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'uid')"
Thanks! I'll fix that bug today :)
Great points about some way to gather feedback and webflow, cheers!
Project: Loggify
Challenge:
Get first customer live with published release notes, so I can show those cases to more people and grow organically from there.
I have a few (3-4) proper leads that want to start "asap", but don't really.
I don't care about the money at this moment. I just my product up and running with a few cool companies, so I can share testimonals that are not faked, but can link to real world use.
How you could help (all other ways also appreciated):
If you have a product yourself - Use Loggify (or at least give it a try). ❤️
Just a tiny point for you, on your page below the pricing the caveat reads "fail use policy".
That was a bad bad typo :D
Thanks ❤️ solved ✅
Project: https://planzer.io
Challenge: Converting trial users to paying users.
Context: I have around 140 users now, but no paying users. I've tried to reach out to the users who have signed up, but no one is returning my emails.
Hard business model.
Subscription models on consumers are hard.
I think the biggest thing you need to solve is finding the right pricepoint (10 seems quite expensive without diving deep, IMHO)
You could try a "pay-what-you-want" campaign.
Or a lifetime deal.
Or something like first 10 customers get it for $1, next 10 for $2,...
I think price-point could be your issue to tackle.
Interesting take, thank you, I'll work more on this aspect for sure. :-)
My project is https://creatickz.com/, I offer monthly graphic design subscriptions.
I lauched a few days ago and started promoting my website organically on Reddit comments, I feel like I'm getting great traffic and people interest, however I would like to try a more "agressive" way to market and I think affiliate marketing is the one. However I don't know how people get and connect with affiliates to promote their services, is there any way to do this? Thanks!
To find affiliates, you need to do some outreach yourself. Search for those affiliates you see as an excellent match for Creatickz, and then email them your offer.
Doing it this way, then you're also sure only to get those you want to represent your brand.
Remember to both google for blogs but also YouTube channels as well.
You can also use platforms like Modash.io to find influencers who work as affiliates. Happy hunting 🎉
Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely will research and reach out to them via email.
I’m working on WorkCalmly. An app to help you become stupidly productive without feeling dead end of day.
One of my biggest challenges I think is to create the Aha moment on the website. People get super excited after seeing the prototype (and actually give me money), but I struggle to translate that onto the website.
Hey @heyjonas 👋
I think you've answered your own question!
People get excited by the prototype, so why not show it on your site? You could allow users to browse a demo account to try it out. Or include a video walkthrough of the product, if the prototype is not quite ready yet!
You're right! I'll try that! Thank you!
So basically, instead of a phrase “Ace your work balance” have “Science based productivity app”, something like that.
What do you think?
Your page looks really nice. After a bit of scrolling, everything is clear.
I think you could improve the first sentence so that people see right away how it is different from other apps, since there are many competing apps.
Overall, I think it is great project, joined the waitlist.
Thank you! How did you feel about the description I left here (the “Become stupidly productive without feeling dead end of day”)
Dude, go for it! at least give it a try. just look at the hundreds of Saas products that use the same generic language that's often hard to understand (i'm not saying yours is, just pointing out that website text is so similar, websites just become forgettable)
"Be stupidly productive without feeling dead by the end of the day" is something people will remember. Might not be everybody's cup of tea, but they will surely remember it. If they hate it so much they won't use your product, but they likely wouldn't use your product even with the "Ace your work balance" line
Hook them with the crazy line, explain what the app does later on
That's very encouraging. Thank you a lot! Made me more confident in giving it a shot :)
It does deal with a major problem - burnout and feeling overwhelmed. However, at least I, would like to understand how an app would a achieve that, at least at a very abstra ct level.
That's such great feedback, thank you so much!