Geoman
GeoJSON Editor & Leaflet Tools
We hit Hackernews Top 5 today. Here's what happened:
📈 Traffic up 5000% for that day
📫 Great Emails and Comments with Feedback and Suggestions
Learnings:
💪 There is a market for the GeoJSON Editor
📉 Traffic is temporary. Dies down after a few days. How much one gets out of this peak depends on preparation.
📧 I should collect emails for platform launches
💰There should be a clear sales funnel
After years of developing my open source library leaflet-geoman and many months of trying the make my work sustainable by providing a paid product, I finally was able to land the first agreement with a client and secure my first monthly recurring revenue.
While I was back and forth with what product I should build, what direction I should go, I had no product-market fit and was basically all over the place with the website.
Seems like the Pro version of my OSS library was the product all along. Let's see if I can get more customers to this and achieve true product-market fit. I asked the client to support me through Github Sponsors so I can skip all the credit card collection, stripe integration, registration and so on.
https://github.com/sponsors/codeofsumit
I'm very very happy about this and it gives me much bigger motivation to continue my work on Geoman.
I have also recorded an update on YouTube right here:
🇩🇪👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evtw8zP8biI
Leaflet-Geoman:
https://github.com/geoman-io/leaflet-geoman
Yesterday, I have live-streamed coding on Geoman.io for the first time. It was a bit scary but awesome and I will definitely do it again.
What was done during the livestream:
✅ Redone geoman.io landing page
✅ Published Stripe plans
✅ Fixed some bugs
✅ Published the first "projects" feature, broken tho
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Did you already have some following first? I was really surprised how positive the reaction was when I tried Twitch last year.
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I had a few people tuning in. 3 to 4 at any given time. Very low of course as this was my first livestream and I don't have much YouTube Followers (30). New to the video game, but I like it much more than blogging so I'll keep doing it 💪
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Awesome Sumit. Watched a bit of it, luckily they teach us German here in Denmark ;)
And cool you're using Nuxt! I do as well-
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awesome. Nuxt is great!
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Why are you speaking german haha ;)
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Good question. I decided to try YouTube in German instead of english but I'm constantly struggling if this is the right decision. Same on Twitter. Should I "niche" to the German crowd or go english for more viewers potential?
One thing why I wanted to go German is because I talk a lot about financial stuff, building businesses and investing too and there are definitely unique aspects only applying to Germany/Germans.-
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I think if you are on Indie Hackers you should propably try and please this crowd. Doesnt mean you cant talk about the unique aspects of german finance stuff :)
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that's great! Share your videos!
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Our GeoJSON Editor is a quick and simple but powerful tool for creating, viewing, editing and sharing your geospatial data. Edit your data through the code editor or directly on the map and copy or download valid GeoJSON after you're done.
Read the blog post 👇
https://geoman.io/blog/the-most-powerful-online-geojson-editor
We just released Sharable Data to our MVP. That means anyone can go ahead and create geospatial data in an easy to use UI, store it in the cloud and gets an API link to fetch and integrate that data anywhere. Share the link with your developers, teams, clients or friends and let them fetch the data.
Once you change your data in Geoman Studio, the API will, of course, reflect that so the developers working with the API always have up-to-date data.
We added a Newsletter Signup in our Welcome Page now to catch potential customers that are interested in the product but the feature set or price doesn't match their expectations yet.
With the help of our Designer, we redesigned Geoman and have now a new base to improve the product on. More importantly, I'm not embarrassed anymore to send the link around.
Focus now is to fine-tune (clean-up) existing features and get the word around. Basically marketing 🤞
Just wrote the second article about handling circles in GeoJSON. This might help a few people in the leaflet community. As soon as the redesign of the MVP is through I want to write some blog post about what exactly you can do with Geoman to promote it.
https://medium.com/geoman-blog/how-to-handle-circles-in-geojson-d04dcd6cb2e6
Just wrote a technical article about testing map layers end-to-end with cypress. Cypress itself retweeted and it was shared by some of the cypress-technology gurus. Not a big hit though.
https://medium.com/geoman-blog/testing-maps-e2e-with-cypress-ba9e5d903b2b
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