What's your #1️⃣ challenge right now?
Post your challenge and see if you can help someone out by solving their challenge. This can either be linking an interesting blog post or linking a service from someone here on Indie Hackers, be creative!
I'll tell mine:
Finding the exact pain point I can target for indie hackers who are on Instagram.
Too many features, too little time. StockAlarm
We've got customers requesting new features at least 2x a day and we're having to prioritize quite heavily. It's hard to build an innately complicated product while making the UX extremely simple to use.
How do you prioritize them? I like Stephen Covey's method for prioritizing. He says tasks can be urgent or important, or both. Some tasks might be important but not more urgent than other bug fixes or something.
Getting customers in a scalable manner: Zlappo.
I've been very fortunate to almost triple my MRR in the past month, but a lot of it felt like unscalable, hand-closed business (prospecting, networking, etc.).
Exploring scalable channels, like SEO, Quora, blogging, etc.
Any tips/tricks on making the transition?
What @dreworos is saying is true. According to Paul Graham from Y Combinator, you have to start in unscalable ways in order to succeed in the beginnings.
Have you thought about advertising on Twitter? And perhaps you can do some growth hacking if paid customers tweet about you they get an X% discount on their next invoice.
In the early days, "hand-closed business (prospecting, networking, etc.)" is how you do it.
You're catering to a highly educated market i.e. most folks know it's important to grow their Twitter following - that's a good thing and should make your life easier.
Start some Google search advertising and target your competitor's names as keywords. That should start to get you some bottom of the funnel leads and get you some learnings.
Add some blog posts targeting topics with high search volume.
Create a business out of iPad only. First though, I need to find a problem to solve
I think it's actually a good practice! Cause you won't start coding too fast (something I kinda do...).
Once you find a problem create a simple landing page with Mailchimp or Unbounce and use bitly to cover you don't use a domain of your own. Then start spreading it and see if you can actually make a first sale without coding! :)
If it has to be one, then finding the motivation after doing required paid work.
Perhaps you'll find my previous post interesting:
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-30-day-approach-to-self-discipline-4a178380f0
Adding more subscribers to https://helloclouders.com is our biggest challenge at the moment.
As a part of our newsletter series, also created an interesting AWS exam/quiz at https://app.goexampro.com/?examId=864e91bb-f53a-4029-97f6-b00abbc89a7d_1587833332 for our subscribers and received some good feedback from users.
Its absolutely lot of work to create questions and explanations and arrange that as a form of exam. But yes, we are doing our best.
Ok, so tell me what is your current strategy to drive traffic to your website?
And what's the current number of your email list and conversion rate?
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