Marketing is hard ):
by ShemI went on Twitter, IH, r/SaaS, r/startups to try to promote Limiter and engage with the community. I had a one day spike to 75 visitors on GA but no sign ups, not even for free tier.
Someone suggested I start a blog and rank for keywords. So I'm going to try content marketing next. I've a bunch of topics lined up and just managed set up the blog on my site (Tina CMS is looking really promising!). Gonna import those articles into Medium later for additional reach.
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From what I heard, content marketing is a long game, it might take a year before you see improvements (but it won't be a one-day spike for sure). I would bet on continuing what you're doing but mixing it with providing value. You'll need some time to build some following on Twitter, for example, before you have any success promoting stuff. And normally you want to do it before you start building your product.
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Thanks for the solid advice! There's so much more I have to learn in this in space. It didn't take much time to build honestly haha, on the plus side, now I have a working proof of concept.
Something else I hope to experiment with is engineering-as-marketing. I've had some success with personal projects on GitHub which I drummed up interest by posting on Medium. I have much more confidence there than in my fledgling Twitter account.
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I like this idea, although you have to make sure that the audience of your Medium articles matches your customer profile.
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You need help with marketing. Research that.
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sadly that is quite normal, i have similar results. Maybe except one project which blew up on HN, but it was a free side project.
