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Reddit Love

I posted early this morning on:
https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/dzf6kx/i_made_a_website_for_web_developers_and_digital/

I went and eat my breakfast and there were 16 users and 10 positive comments on the thread.

Amazing, goal reached.

Posted at 9.00H since then 300 users have been in and 276of them are new ones.

Following day update is here:

#growth

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    Great job Michael! I once had a blast with Reddit and I couldn't describe my feeling back then. It was 1.9k upvote!

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    That's really amazing man. Inspiring. Just curious to ask how do you monetize such projects? Thanks.

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      Yes, it's amazing because I was just testing it out.

      You made the question many wonders.

      I am creating a Sponsors deals ( https://www.colorsandfonts.com/sponsors.html )
      and now I am driving traffic to it. I am taking care of the legal part, then I can start taking in paying sponsors.

      In the beginning, I had google ads, but they were awful so I removed them.

      Then I am not ready at all with the site, it's lots to do. i am creating this.
      https://www.colorsandfonts.com/featured.html
      a la Dribbble we could say.

      I have a newsletter but is just updates and soon as I can feature designers shots will be different, and with 26 subscribers i can't do much....

      Thank you for your comment

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        Inspired from your pricing page. I have created this pricing for my project. Can you please spare2 minutes and provide your feedback?
        https://startuparound.com/sponsors

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          It looks fine and clean. Something I would not have is icons, emojis, and some sort kiddish stuff around in such an important page. Call me old fashioned but is just my opinion.

          Remember, opinion ain't facts. But nice tho.

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        Wonderful approach. Learned couple of things. I would appreciate if you can suggest me the similar business model for my project?

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    Love the site; saw it on reddit yesterday actually :P

    Quick note:
    You've got a typo on the last entry (maybe two?) on this page: https://www.colorsandfonts.com/fonts.html

    In the Codystar/Josephine Slab, the two fontsets on the second column appear to be both Josephine slab. Then the image linked from this one shows Open Sans rather than Josephine Slab.

    On the last entry, you called 'Cormorant Garamond' Codystar in the second column.

    Maybe it's worth giving the whole typography page a quick checkover for consistency!

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      You are 100% right. I have neglected the page. I haven't done nothing in 3 months maybe...

      Thank you so much...!

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    Awesome! What timezone are you in? Just curious re timing

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      I live in the Γ₯land Islands so it would be :
      Eastern European Standard Time
      Time zone in Γ…land Islands (GMT+2)
      Friday, November 22, 2019, 7:48 PM

  5. 2

    Hey Michael, congrats on your project. I love the UI and UX of it. So clean and clear.
    Me and my friends also build an app with news for developers. You can check it out on my profile.

    I've subscribed to the newsletter also :D Keep up the awesome work!

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      Thank you so mich for your kind words. It means a lot. I will have a look tonight without a doubt. Thank you so much for subscribing I won't spam at all,I promised.

  6. 2

    This is great!

    Reddit can a really nice place to show and promote things we are working on. Totally under-rated.

  7. 2

    Looks pretty good, cheers!

    How old is the website?

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      hey ! thank you. I launched on may 10th in Product Hunt. but I started to build it january-february

  8. 2

    Very nice. One thing I would like to see in the font pairings section is some way to filter by the impression you're trying to convey with your font choices (e.g. trustworthy, serious, playful, creative, technical, etc).

  9. 2

    Great job Michael!!!
    Just out of curiosity from time to time during today I was looking at your Reddit post and it's growing in upvotes with pretty good speed.

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      dude, thank you !.
      The post went viral... right now I have 88 users online and 7000 users over time.....

      edit: I had to upgrade firebase to 25/m......

  10. 2

    This looks amazing. Great job, and congrats!!

  11. 2

    This is awesome! Great stuff. Just signed up and actually just grabbed on of the pallets

  12. 2

    How do you get around the self promotion rules on reddit?

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        Congrats Michael! I'm thinking about posting my project on /webdev as well but I'm afraid it's going to be seen as self promotion :(
        I'm creating free for commercial use animated gifs - cliply.co Do you think your audience at colorsnadfonts.com would be interested in it?

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          I ask because I always have the same worry, I think the problem is it seems to come down to how the community you post on perceives your intentions. Reddit's self promotion rules specifically state being free isn't an exemption: https://bit.ly/37rj2aw. I suppose you have to go about it in the right way, contribute to other posts etc.

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            Just ask no problem mate. Well, you are right, is very psychological...i mean.

            You can't post it in any channel, like I made research into the channel, comments, upvotes also.

            I would say the title of the posts. That is incredibly important, you can't make it sound professional, is better coloquial in some cases.

            It was just one person being a grinch but hen commented little.

            Right now there's 57 users and from this morning at 9 00 to now 6 5k and 25 subscribers.

            I have wasted Firebase free tier n had to upgrade....to 25 at month haha.

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              That's awesome, and thanks for the advice!

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