What is the one thing you wished you did earlier?
Hey indie hackers 👋🏼
I’ve got a simple question for anyone that has grown their customer base:
What is the one thing you wished you did earlier when launching your product to help grow your customer base? 🤔
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I wish I'd built a sales site and started collecting email addresses earlier. I didn't do too badly there, but a few extra months of directing traffic, writing blog posts, and collecting email addresses means potentially a lot more email addresses at launch.
Nice one Dan, I’m definitely going to be heeding this piece of advice.
1up for that.
Had a blog post with 500K views and 0 monetizations few years ago.
Collect those emails asap.
Thanks for the advice @uxwritinghub, I believe we connected on LinkedIn last year too :-)
And I think I joined your UX writing course too, which is awesome!
That's cool! Happy to see you here :) Feel free to reach out if you want to brainstorm a bit.
Build free tools
Do you mean free giveaway tools that are related to your product?
One tool i built https://saaspages.xyz/
Cut the functionality of my product and consult with other persons on how to better implement it
Nice, did you reduce much of the functionality?
I did, I have like 150 tasks in backlog, but most of them are left for 2.0 version
Just went for it!
I waited so long to start my projects and re-eveluate if people needed them even.
Just build, launch and try, the only way to go.
I love that! I’m notorious for thinking 1) people won’t want it, and 2) its too much work - I’ll never be able to do it.
Yes, same for me. But once you break it. It will get you places
Took action earlier
Don't be afraid
Once you take your first step, that's where it begins.
I’ve always put stuff off for “being too busy” but when I look at it really, I’m just afraid of putting my stuff out there. Thanks for sharing @outrankio
I was like that too
I overthinked and rationalize saying I was too busy or no one is ever gonna like it without putting myself out there.
That's all it is.
A leap of faith
Starting a newsletter, hands down.
Cool. How did that help? What kind of content did you include in it?
The newsletter hasn't actually helped yet, that's why I wished I had it ready (and with a bit more subscribers) when I launched my ebook. The newsletter is a curated weekly roundup of practical resources on Google products and related tech.
Gotcha! That’s a great idea