Emblemicons

I wrote about my entire experience of building and launching my first product Emblemicons. Here are my key learnings from the experience -

1. We can develop any new skill very quickly by doing and performing the tasks. I built Emblemicons by shipping something and getting my hands dirty every day. That's the way.

2. The paths are not going to be smooth for us. We need to figure out things as we make progress. I got stuck at many points while building Emblemicons. But, all I would do, whenever I got stuck, was to look out for information on the internet and figure out a way to learn and fix the issues.

3. Learn new things and build new things.

4. Do more, talk less.

5. Ship, Ship, and Ship. Because that is only what matters in building products.

My blog is at - https://manishbharvey.com/blog/2020/09/29/i-built-my-first-product-and-launched-it-on-product-hunt-in-one-month

In the second week of August 2020, I started my journey to build my first product. I started working on a very simple idea to build an open-source icon library of the most commonly and frequently used icons in digital products and share it with the world. On September 13, 2020, I launched my first product, Emblemicons, an open-source free-to-use library of 1000+ beautiful icons, on Product Hunt. To my surprise, Emblemicons got the "#4 Product of the Day" badge from Product Hunt on the launch day.

It was a great moment to cherish.

We launched Emblemicons on Product Hunt and got to the front page/featured products page!

I don't know how many page views I got because I forgot to integrate Google Analytics to track traffic. All I know is that we got around 100+ upvotes on launch day and we got many more upvotes the next day.

The best learning I had was that don't forget to integrate Google Analytics or any other analytics software to measure and keep track of your traffic. It just takes 15-30 mins of your time, even if you are a novice. It gives you insights to improve your product. I integrated Google Analytics in Emblemicons after a few days of the launch day.

I wrote about the launch of Emblemicons in our blog at -
https://emblemicons.in/blog/2020/09/12/emblemicons-1.1.0/

I'm excited about what comes next!

It took 3 weeks, but I'm finally done building the minimum viable product for Emblemicons. I worked mostly nights and weekends, and I coded the whole thing in Jekyll, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. I wrote about the experience of completing MVP in the blog at - https://emblemicons.in/blog/2020/08/30/a-warm-welcome-to-emblemicons-1.0.0/
The next goal for me was to scale it from the current base of 100+ icons to 1000+ icons in the next 2 weeks.

I wanted to build and launch my first product.
I've read so many times that you should solve your own problem, and so I was thinking about all the problems in my life.

With our analysis, we were surprised to find that the process to find and download a basic commonly used icon from the web involves too many steps and it was time-consuming.

Emblemicons was born with a simple idea to build an open-source library of most commonly and frequently used icons in digital products and share it with the world.

Emblemicons was born as a weekend project to make the most commonly and frequently used icons available for free. The idea was to make a library of icons that can be used in product development, product design, software development, business presentations, academic projects, to name a few. The idea was to make it completely free for personal and commercial use.