Remastering my most successful product
by David FilipI've been building my products since early 2000s, listening to common wisdom that says "Never build product for customers". During all those 20 years I've launched, maybe, 10 different B2B products and diverged exactly once and those 8 hours of inital work was my biggest indie success so far.
Back in 2010 I wanted to learn how to play a piano and step one was to read the sheet of notes fluently. Well, lets create an app for that right? Three hours later I've got small prototype, bought domain and uploaded it to my server.
During the years I've improved it a bit: added option to connect your piano via MIDI, created pro version and such. Product never catched wildfire, but there are quite a nice number people visiting the site every day for past 10 years. There were years were income from the site paid for my rent, but with ad rates going down it now pays for dinner or two each month.
I always had a lot of ideas on how to improve the product, but I was always too busy freelancing or working on my B2B apps and NotationTraining was left in the void.
With 10 year anniversary on horizon it is time to finally create block of free time and create new product inspired by what I've learned operating NotationTraining with new flavor.
