IdeasDrop
A social community for sharing and validating new ideas.
🚩 Launched 40 days ago
🥳 60 members
💰$290 MRR
Also some big news is QuHarrison Terry has signed up. QuHarrsion is Mark Cubans right hand man for anyone who doesn't know. Check him out https://www.linkedin.com/in/quharrison-terry-728b3a89/
Join the community https://www.ideasdrop.com/
🚩 Excited to kick off the first Idea to Product event.
What is Idea to Product event?
Each month we take ONE members idea and over the course of a month, we help them take their idea from just that - an idea to a finished product
💡This months idea we will be building in the open is:
"Personal ideas organisation tool. More than a note taking app, you would be able to add dimensions to your ideas like feasability, complexity, estimated time to completion, weeknesses, strengths, doubts... And add everything related to your research (links, images, pdfs...)."
Join the community https://www.ideasdrop.com/
🚩 Launched 31 days ago
🥳 53 members (+2)
💰$255 MRR (+$10)
➡️ To-do
Investigate more SubReddits
Start sharing more ideas from community to entice people
Update landing page with demo video
✅ Done
Shared IdeasDrop on r/sideproject
Joined Makerlog
💡Members idea of the day
A customized package of apps for you to get started running your own business or next project. Get app subscription discounts and learn what works for you.
Join the community https://www.ideasdrop.com/
🤔 Starting to feel like momentum is building now. A few of my free trial members converted too paid.
🚩 Launched 30 days ago
🥳 51 members
💰$245 MRR
➡️ To-do
Spend some time building out the monthly idea challenge for Feb launch
✅ Done
Find some articles around community building
Look at potential subreddits to share
Research potential growth channels
💡Members idea of the day
Earphones that can sense if someones trying to talk to you. If certain words are used in a sentence the earphones vibrate and turn down. Words such as “hello” or your name etc.
Join the community https://www.ideasdrop.com/
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Have you considered adding more plans? What sort of features do you think are the kind people would pay more for? Also how is this more beneficial for validating ideas since it has a smaller user base ("quality over quantity") than say Reddit or Twitter?
btw I'm not criticizing it and am genuinely curious, I think your revenue shows that there really is a need for this
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Hey Syed, great questions.
What sort of features do you think are the kind people would pay more for?
IdeasDrop members are people with a passion for future trends, innovations and all come from a diverse background which leads to a higher quality of feedback than you would get on Reddit or Twitter. To me all those social networks are full of noise, negativity and trolling. IdeasDrop is a noise free environment.
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Amazing, well done! How did you convert them?
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I think while on 3 days free trial they can see the value from my community so it's an easy sell.
I wouldn't offer a free trial for digital products because you're right they will just download and not come back. Maybe offer one free download if they share a tweet or an instagram post. Might help with reach. I think your product is great you just need more traffic .
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🤔 I didn't expect my previous update to resonate so much with the IH community. Thank you all for the positive comments.
Think @stefanolaru summed it up best "It's your milestone, so it can be whatever you consider."
🥳 50 members
💰 $235 MRR
➡️ To-do
Find some articles around community building
Look at potential subreddits to share
Research potential growth channels
✅ Done
Spent some time moderating and updating community
💡Members idea of the day
Family chore app. Designate chores for your kids straight to their phone.
Join the community https://www.ideasdrop.com/
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How is this an update? Are you using milestone as a todo list?
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Wow! I'm defo gonna try it today... seems like a really good platform idea.
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Look forward to it :)
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@daviddel If you want to do Todo and Done, join https://www.indiehackers.com/group/daily-stand-up please 🙏
🤔Thoughts
An IH member was complaining about my previous post complaining that it wasn't a milestone. A milestone doesn't have to be hitting $5K MRR, it can be getting one new sign up, making $5 or even just getting some good feedback. I'm going to continue sharing my small wins so you can see that a successful product doesn't happen overnight, it happens over time.
Now let us get back to business.
🥳 50 members (+2)
💰 $235 MRR
🥰 Got a shoutout from Courtland on Twitter
✅ Done
Community Moderation
Marketing/ sales push
💡Members idea of the day
"Why don't all the big tech companies (Skype, Facebook, Amazon, Gmail) offer pared-back versions of their products for the elderly (non-tech-savvy)? It could include increased button/ font sizes, remove unnecessary features/ clutter, better phishing preventative systems etc" via David
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It's your milestone, so it can be whatever you consider. Congrats on the milestone! ;)
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Totally okay to post milestones of any size whatsoever, and I also think your milestones are pretty great!
However, I'm going to rename your milestone (from "I needed to say this") to be consistent with the naming prompt of "What did you accomplish." This is something I care about for two reasons:
- When people first show up to IH and look at the "milestones" section at the top, I want them to understand what's going on, and it's confusing if the milestone titles don't seem like milestones titles.
- The subject line of the daily milestones email is simply the title of the day's top milestone, so again, it's a bit confusing if it's just titled like an normal post instead of a milestone.
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Agree with this move - I think HackerNews does a similar thing with titles that are worded strangely or clickbait-y. Someone made this a while back: https://hackernewstitles.netlify.com/
I saw the original downvoted comment and hope that person was only criticizing the title too because I think the content of these milestones is great!
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Totally understand and really appreciate your transparency @csallen
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That particular individual doesn't have any products listed on their page, so perhaps they're unsure what milestones can be.
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That could be the reason :)
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Congrats! We've been there/are in the midst still + know just how important a few £/$s can make to the momentum of the business. Keep going!
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Congrats
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Thank you
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Haters gonna hate! /shrug
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Ain't that the truth Matthew :)
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It'd be worse if no one cared enough to respond. Even with negative comments you are capturing attention - so kudos to you on that :)
Keep posting them!
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Thanks Marty
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I totally agree! As a founder of a really early stage startup I personally even find the "smaller" milestones here on IH as more inspiring - naturally since it's closer to where I am with my business. Thanks for sharing and inspiring!
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Exactly how I feel Emelie, thank you so much :D
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Yeah! Congrats :-)
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Agreed! And congrats
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Thanks Harry.
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You define your milestones. They become useful to the community when they are expressed clearly, and you describe yours very well. Keep at it!
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Well put :D
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Absolutely. Cheers to all the small victories. Celebrate them! Always remember how far you’ve come!
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Appreciate that :)
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I'll take the higher ground :)
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🥳 48 members 💰 $225 MRR
Done ✅
Taking one members idea and building it as a community is a go for February
To-do ➡️
Marketing/ sales push
Community Moderation
Follow up on the members who left after the free trial
💡Members idea of the day
"A web extension that detects pictures of trump automatically and replaces the image with a picture of a cute kitten." via Aoife
Sign up for a 3-day free trial https://www.ideasdrop.com/
🥳 48 members
💰 $225 MRR
Done ✅
Create marketing posts for Medium, Reddit and all social networks.
To-do ➡️
Have members share their goals and dreams for the year and we as a community work tirelessly to fulfil one person’s goal and then use that as a story to capture the magic of the community.
Sign up for a 3-day free trial https://www.ideasdrop.com/
🥳 48 members
💰 $225 MRR (3 sign up for free trial)
Done:
✅ Added a 3-day free trial to help get more members in.
To-do
➡️ Create marketing posts for Medium, Reddit and all social networks.
🤔 Reflection:
I did not expect for my first IdeasDrop post on IH to receive so much engagement and positive feedback. Thank you all it means a lot. I think the majority of us suffer from fear, uncertainty and doubt. As a solo founder and someone who relies on his side projects to pay the bills it always means a lot when people are nice.
Sign up for a 3-day free trial https://www.ideasdrop.com/
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That's a same fear even I have in me. I am full time solo founder.
To mitigate this fear, I finally asked myself
how much minimum monthly income do my family need without sacrificing our standard of leaving ?
I came up with a number X.
Next , I thought how can I earn amount X that doesn't take a hit because of competition ?
Then an idea triggered in me. Find a industry / niche which has been offline even today. Which really can't be made automated.
Then I found one.
I ideally found one that has lot of entry barriers. My uncle is in same industry for many years.
So I am trying to introduce small utility software for this industry.
Income from this will be consistent because people in this industry are not tech savvy. They stick with a particular software forever..
This may make me fearless since my required income for my happy life is covered.
I can take a fearless decisions...
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This is exactly how I made the leap from full-time job to full-time maker.
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Funny you post this, I was reflecting on almost the exact same thought today:
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Great post, I feel the same.
I know that I have the kowledge, skills and ideas to create some of the most amazing products out there, I just have to win the fight with myself. Currently this fight seems to be a lot harder than I thought and I know I will win it, only that it takes a lot longer than I expected.
Most of the time you are not fighting your competitors, the market, the customers or the time, you are just fighting with yourself.
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This is a great post Kev.
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"Create marketing posts for Medium" does Medium work? I did a post and haven't seen anything from it. Do you have to be a paid member for it to gain traction?
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It's like anything you need to spend time building up your following and you can gain traction. Try post every second day for a month while also engaging with members who are your target audience.
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That's a challenge for me at the moment. I already have so much on my plate. I know I've got to write on my subject matter. I will however post it into IH. It's mainly an article I wrote about rebranding. Some might find it helpful 🤔
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All you need to do is create one piece of content and then simply copy/ paste across medium, IH, Reddit. You can then break it down into a thread for twitter and then more for Instagram, Facebook etc.
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Yep. That's correct. I'm trying to keep my presence up on IH. And I've also just joined the WeWork Labs Global Mentor Network and they want me to write content for that platform as well. I need to start cloning or outsourcing I think.
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Congrats on taking the step and launching and getting paid users! Appreciate the reflection
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Thanks John.
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Tried signing up for your newsletter but couldn't process through the popup.
At the start of January, I set a goal to hit 40 monthly subscribers for my community.
Quick update:
🥳 45 members
💰 $225 MRR
Thoughts:
🤩 Added in the daily challenge to increase value/ engagement.
🤗 Activity levels for such a small community are insane.
Going to use the daily feedback for content to drive more traffic to my sales page.
Sign up for a 3-day free trial https://www.ideasdrop.com/
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I'm on zero sleep and initially thought your thread was titled "Hit my mother" but this is much better news! That would've been an odd thing to brag about on IH. Congrats, David!
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hahah that made me laugh, thanks Tom.
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Awesome David!
It’s drastically important to keep your early customers engaged.
What’s your plan to take it further?
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Looks cool. I almost signed up but left because a credit card was required. I'd be happy to pay the $5 per month if I could get in and feel it out. I tend to leave sites that require cards because I always forget.
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You get a 3-day free trial which you can cancel at any time, the platform that I'm using (MightyNetworks) doesn't allow me for people to sign up without a credit card.
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I see you are using Mighty Networks. I was considering using it for a project, would love to hear your feedback on it and how does it compare to other platforms!
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Great work. Keep it up!
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Thank you :)
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Awesome!
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Thanks
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Congrats and more power to you!
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Thank you :)
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Congrats David! All the best!
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Thanks Chris
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Congrats. What's your yearly goal ?
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Thanks Marcin
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Nice, how have you been acquiring members?
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I've built up a solid online following so it helps and I'm using my newsletter to push traffic which has 12,500 members.
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Congratulations!!
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Thanks Mark
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Congratulations David. Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work.
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Thanks Dhan
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Congrats bro!
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Thanks Nick.
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Congrats! that's an awesome milestone to hit.
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Thank you
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Congrats David. We don't often celebrate the small wins along our journey to success.
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Thanks, Simon, it's important to celebrate every win.
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congratulations!!
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Cheers :)
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That's a wonderful milestone stone for you mate, congrats!
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Thank you.
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Congrats! This is a really cool concept, well done 🎉
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Appreciate that :)
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Cheers Sam
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Great, and the endorsment too ;-) Not convinced with the "pay to view", too early I think but who dares win?!
Thanks my man
This is great! Love the social validation on landing. That really should help with sign ups!
I do not like that I need to put in a card to just try it, even though I understand the reasoning. So I bounced. Is there a video so I can see what it looks like does without committing to pay?
Working on one as I type this.
Great work David, I wish you all the best!
Thank you Daniel
Congrats David. Can you tell us the other marketing strategies you followed other than posting it on here & Product hunt?
Hey man, I have a bit of an advantage .I've built up a decent following online which I use. 2.8 Million now. I also have a decent sized email list (12,900) on my https://www.fiveideasaday.com/join
Fascinating to know. Keep it up!
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Thank you Alex. Wish someone told me about the stress of churn though 🤣