Fastozo

It's been a long slog to get here, but Fastozo just passed 100 signups! This has been the result of several efforts, including blogging, social media marketing, press, and podcast appearances. Most of the customers converted to active subscribers after our 14-day free trial.

Today one of my first trial customers for Fastozo converted to paid. I noticed when I got the email from Paypal that said "Payment of $99". It felt amazing! Just 99 more of these and I'll be exactly where I want to be with my business. I'm excited to see what comes next!

Yesterday we launched Fastozo on Hacker News and got to the front page! Overall it resulted in 6,000 page views and almost 100 new signups. Here are three lessons I learned:

Refine your website before launching. There were several typos and errors on my site that I could've fixed beforehand if I'd asked a few friends for their opinions.

Submit multiple times if you have to. This was my third time submitting an attempt in two weeks. The first two didn't make it to the front page, but this one did.

It took 6 weeks, but I'm finally done building the minimum viable product for Fastozo. In hindsight, there were a few features I built that probably could've waited until later. But I'm excited to start talking to customers and beta testers and see what they think about the product so far!

I've read so many times that you should solve your own problem, and so last week I sat down to think about all the problems in my life.

It turned out that I had quite a few problems worth solving, and the most interesting one led me to the idea for Fastozo!