Instapost

This week marked two big milestones for Instapost:

• 2 users signed up
• Got approved to start accepting payments

That means this it is officially a product that you can sign up for and purchase now!

My current goal for the product is to incrementally provide value every day if possible. That means making more templates, adding more features, creating more tools, and improving the quality of the product.

I'm also focusing on sharing something on social media every day if possible, too. Right now, everytime I ship something, I post about it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cammchenry which helps motivate me to keep going.

I am very bad at asking for money.

I understand that I do is valuable, but asking for money feels weird. At the same time, people paying you for your time / your experience is so incredibly validating.

I need that validation to keep going, and know that what I'm working on is valued by people. So I'm trying something different with Instapost.

Normally, I spend many hours before launching trying to perfect my payment processor webhooks, add lots of features, implement auth, optimizing API usage, and so on. Essentially anything except asking people to pay for my product and get validation.

For Instapost, I'm prioritizing pricing right away. I added a price to my landing page, but it's not even set up to charge any money yet. I'm not going to set up my payments until someone signs up. Until then, I'm focusing on building features and marketing the product.

I'll let you know how it goes!

Shout-out to @bastiancreates for finding and roasting my landing page before I even posted it anywhere 😄