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Fund A Maker exists to make it easier for indie makers to be found and for potential customers to support them by buying their products!

July 25, 2019 150+ subscribers and first revenue!

I recently crossed over the 150 subscribers this week for fundamaker.com, and I couldn't be happier. I've seen consistent growth and engagement throughout and I wanted to share a couple stats with everyone!

  • Average open rate for newsletter: 65% +
  • Unsubscribes: 1
  • Monthly unique visits: 720
  • Revenue: $5 (Buy me coffee)

In three weeks I've seen tons of growth and am super happy with the progress so far.

I'm now focussing on what's next.

I've started a Google Sheet to gather a list of makers and products, that I plan to use as the foundation for the Fund a Maker V2 website.

If your product isn't on the list, please feel free to add it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cSvWOUGfrG-IE14TDeojz6UCNcV_xoSwxXTrIPvEZoE/

I'm also looking for ideas and suggestions around what the future fundamaker.com platform should look like. Please share your craziest ideas in the comments below, I'd love to hear them!

July 15, 2019 70 subscribers in the first week!

It's been just over a week since I came up with the idea to launch fundamaker.com - a newsletter to help promote and support indie makers and their awesome products!

In that time, I've shipped the first edition of the newsletter and have since doubled the number of subscribers, which has been totally amazing to watch happen!

I've also been seeing a steady stream of requests to be featured in the newsletter, which is really exciting.

All of this suggests to me that there is a real need for additional support for the maker / solo founder community and I'm already thinking of a couple new ways that we could better help makers get early traction for their ideas and products.

If you have any suggestions or ideas, please feel free to let me know!

July 12, 2019 First Fund A Maker email shipped

I'm so excited 馃帀

Less than a week after coming up with the concept for the Fund A Maker newsletter I've sent out my first email to almost 40 subscribers. I couldn't be happier with how the first edition turned out, and I'm looking forward to continuing to grow, while promoting awesome makers and their products.

If you missed out on the first newsletter, don't forget to sign up here: http://fundamaker.com

You can also read the newsletter in your browser here if you like: https://mailchi.mp/1f5f78faa665/funding-your-idea-with-a-tweet-lma-v2-and-coworkto

July 7, 2019 Fund A Maker Launch

I'm soft launching fundamaker.com today! You can go and sign up on the website now!

Feel free to leave me any feedback or suggestions in the comments!

Our mission is to surface and highlight awesome indie products and makers. Let's support the maker community by buying their products instead of products from large corporate machines!

A little history: After coming up with the idea for Fund A Maker Friday, and then sharing this it on Twitter and Indie Hackers, I received a lot of great feedback about what an awesome initiative it is.

So I decided to turn it into a newsletter and fundamaker.com was born!

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Fund A Maker exists to make it easier for indie makers to be found and for potential customers to support them by buying their products!