Community Validated

After reaching 100 subs much sooner, we add a 0 to this goal. We will try to reach 1000 subs by 19th of September! Here's the original goal:

I set this goal kind of arbitrarily. Subscribers are my main KPI for this newsletter, so I decided to maximize for this metric. I want to reach 100 subscribers by mid-September, publishing one report a week. I'll try to get subscribers mainly through IndieHackers, Twitter, and Slack communities.

One week after launching, we reached 230 subs! This totally blew our minds and got us excited to work towards more growth. 230 is still a small number, but we're very happy to get this great kickstart.

IH and Reddit worked really well for us. We will exploit both channels more, but are already anticipating that those will probably be more of "spike-y" growth channels. We will probably have to get into SEO in the short-/mid-term future.

But for now, we will celebrate this weeks success 🎉

Actually, this was pretty crazy!!! I didn't know what to expect when launching Community Validated. It was my first time launching a newsletter, so I had no idea how fast one could get subscribers. I expected it to take a month to reach 100 subs, so I was super duper happy reaching it only 5 days after launching it!

It took me some time to finalize and commit to the idea. After some initial research in communities, I decided to go for it. The first report took me about 1.5-2 weeks to finalize. I finally launched it on IndieHackers on August 6th, 2021, to get some initial feedback and traction.

I was doing community research to find interesting problems to solve. While doing this research, I thought it would be great if someone else would do this for me, or if I could buy a product that has this info. So I thought I that sharing my research with others might be valuable to them.