24hourhomepage.com

I've been steadily growing 24hourhomepage.com since launch and recently started focusing growth on creative content creators, artists and businesses.

In that space, VINYL MOON shines as one of the best art products out there. I reached out to their founder several weeks ago and they just joined!

Read more here:
https://higgins.medium.com/special-post-vinyl-moon-on-24hourhomepage-2a6c4083d03b

I've never sold $1 from a product of mine online, so it feels GREAT to get over that hill. Lots more sales ahead!

My first week marketing strategy was to find bloggers and content creators online and offer them a discount if they become and (early-bird). That includes you too, reader!

If you want a fun way to advertise your work, checkout:
https://24hourhomepage.com

HMU at: [email protected] if you want a discount too!

After launching last summer, I realize I put no thought into growth. I didn't have an online audience and ideas alone don't just 💨poof 💨become successful.

So I regrouped and focused on a new launch I would start marketing.

I got some feedback that the unstyled site was unattractive to potential buyers and hired a designer for the new logo.

The response has been positive and people are staying on the site longer than before (20s)

After launching I cold emailed a bunch of comic artists and offered some free time. A number accepted the offer and today one
published their comic on the site!

You can find their story here:
https://24hourhomepage.com/8675?e=8679

Lesson here: keep emailing and following up with people who respond to you!

I mostly keep to myself online.

I don't contribute to any social network but github (and now IH) and part of my personal development goals is to become more comfortable contributing to forums, communities online.

Today, I published my first post about 24hourhomepage.com and am hopeful to get some feedback!

Do the thing!

Start demoing to more people and create sustained rhythm for managing this while working full-time at hustle.com

Thankful for my great team there (we're hiring).

Outreach to a handful of my favorite artists to demo the product.
Keeping hope alive.

Start showing the product to friends and family.
Read a bunch of documentation from irs.gov and speak to some finance, accounting, legal folks.

Impressed with IRS documentation, but think it could be MUCH better (hyperlinks in federal documents). ehem, seems like a great feature for stripe atlas!

Waffle a bit on the player modes. Is the story a customer uploads played at the viewer's local time or some global time?

How big should the images be? What is the content moderation policy? How much should I charge?

Avoid analysis paralysis, shippy go doot 🚢🚢

Was nudged by Tyler Brock to ship this before the end year.

The idea has remained largely the same since inception: a website where you could upload images, associate a URL to them and chain them together in a 1 image-per-second animation.