Dev Resources
Collaborative development resources lists. From dev to dev.
After the launch on Product Hunt and the increase of visits, the first advertisement sale was concluded.
Adrian, from BigsonDev, reached out to Dev Resources and purchased the premium plan.
BigsonDev is now featured on the homepage, "Programming/Learn" category, related products' page and in the upcoming newsletter.
The big day arrived: Dev Resources was launched on Product Hunt.
At the end of the day, Dev Resources did not end up among the 5 most upvoted submissions, but still, it got great feedback and exposure.
Along the day, it was also mentioned in other mediums, reaching 1.5k upvotes on Reddit.
All of it combined resulted in the highest number of unique visitors in one day so far: 6844.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/dev-resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/lce63x/i_built_a_collaborative_list_of_resources_for_developers
Dev Resources just made its first revenue from an affiliate link.
Since a couple of weeks, DR includes a number of affiliate links, some of them with price discounts, as a way of helping the creator to sell more and the buyer to pay less, while profiting from it.
Today, one copy of Landing Page Hot Tips was sold on DR, generating $14.50 in commission.
The issue #0008 of the Indie Drops newsletter features Dev Resources.
Indie Drops reached 1000 newsletter subscribers, and for celebrating the milestone, they ran a Distribution Giveaway, with DR being selected as one of the 7 chosen products to be featured on this special issue.
Traffic coming from YouTube, for the first time, meant that Dev Resources reached another milestone: it was being featured on Adrian Twarog's channel.
Adrian showed some public APIs to his viewers, making the discovering through DR.
Visits to DR reached a new daily record: 1662 visitors. 🤯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QBmXEylP8&ab_channel=AdrianTwarog
The first newsletter subscriber arrived.
A new addition to the redesign of the platform, the newsletter form starts now working, gathering devs interested in updates and articles by Dev Resources.
The first issue is still to be produced: its making will start when the 100º subscriber milestone is reached.
With kind words and a lot of encouragement, Lucian Tartea from Inovatik becomes the first sponsor of the project, skyrocketing my motivation to keep on working and improving Dev Resources.
As DR is my first indie project, this feels amazing, knowing that with good planning and positive mindset we can build on our ideas.
They say you should be embarrassed by your MVP.
Well, I wasn't embarrassed, but I knew that the UI definitely needed an overhaul.
With a more detailed layout, forms to facilitate communication and advertisement/sponsoring integration, the second version of DR comes to life only 4 months after its initial release.
After two months of tinkering and finding the best way to share all the resources, the first version of Dev Resources is launched.
With a minimal UI and room for improvement, the response on Twitter was nevertheless amazing, and the certainty of usefulness achieved.
Years of bookmarking became hard to maintain, and not sharing all I found didn't feel right.
Dev Resources is idealized to simplify the process of finding that tool, asset or learning resource while staying updated with new projects.
From dev to dev.
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