Lunadio
Turn your side project into business 🚀
A year ago, we started building side-projects and sharing our indie hacker journey on our blog.
Many people like our content and wanted to be a part of it. We decided to turn our newsletter subscribers into community members.
We are really proud to have so many awesome members that help each other build amazing projects and have fun doing it.
Today is a big day for the Lunadio community. 🚀
We decided to support today's online event with Michael Sieb about Product Hunt and launch our community there!!!
Six months ago, we decided to take our struggles and learnings from making a startup and share them with others. Since then, we published an article every week. That’s 22 articles – I counted them for you.
🎉 We have over 100 awesome subscribers.
👀 More than 15 000 people read what we wrote.
💭 Countless insightful discussions with the community.
We covered topics like How to come up with a million-dollar startup idea, Getting 400 signups for a product that didn’t exist, or Technical aspects of starting a SaaS project.
The bigger picture
As makers who don’t want to just pursue a career in writing, we thought about the greater vision for Lunadio for quite some time. How can we better help others while satisfying our own curiosity at the same time?
Many indie hackers are people working their day jobs at a stable company. But they want more. They build amazing projects in their free time. And they often struggle with the transition from one to another.
We want to help people turn their side project into a business.
We were thinking, how can we bring more value to you. Sharing our know-how and thoughts on the blog is nice but we wanted to take it to the next level. Suddenly, we realized we provided that extra value already. To our friend Samuel who is building side-projects while he has a day job. We helped him to validate his idea, develop a project, find the first customers, and close a deal.
We would like to provide this service to you as well.
We are opening our private community to others and inviting you, indie hackers, to join. 🙂
To help you understand what's in the box, you should read the newest blog post by Samuel. He is sharing his journey of building the first side project as a member of Lunadio.
Have a wonderful week,
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Awesome!
A few months ago, we started to write a blog documenting our journey as indie hackers.
Now, we have 2000 reads per month.
We are glad that our content resonates with you guys and we appreciate it so much! ❤
We decided to open our blog to others who want to share their experience and bring value to our audience.
The first guest post was written by Maeva. She runs her own B2B content marketing agency and we love her work.
Let me know if you are interested in publishing a guest post on our blog 😉 we are happy to see your content ideas.
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Congrats! I'm curious what framework you're using to generate your site. I was recently laid off and am spending all my time catching up on my learning. Lunadio.com is blazing fast and I noticed it preloads the blog post content when they scroll into view.
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Hi there,
Amazing work, I really like the website UI and the content is phenomenal for early-stage startups. I recently sent you guys a message on Facebook about a potential guest post (Carrot message). Keep up the good work! -
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Congrats on building up a great readership @ctw. This sounds very interesting. I just sent you an email!
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Thanks. We'll get in touch ;)
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It's 2000 reads 😜
You can see the channels here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QFj93CKqUryTbsWTwjoidiBmSdkQKxGu/view?usp=sharing- Actually, #1 source of our traffic is this website ❤
- Social: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook
- SEO: We don't focus on SEO much at the moment. We just want to share our thoughts and ideas without being limited by keywords.
- Other: Slack groups, Reddit, newsletter
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Recently, I co-founded a community of SaaS founders called Lunadio. Our mission is helping people to build profitable businesses. We're starting by writing useful articles with actionable insights.
My first blog post is about idea valuation: How to come up with a million-dollar startup idea (thanks @EO for the inspiration).
How do you decide what is the best idea to work on?
In the next blog post, I will show you some great examples of how you can validate your idea with no money. Subscribe and don't miss that ;)
Finally, we launched our new website with a blog. Our goal is to provide high-quality content that could help others in building their projects.
We would like to share our know-how and document our journey of Indie Hackers. We commit to publishing at least one blog per week, giving free growth advice for random projects and share our expertise (marketing, UX, development, business strategy...)
Last year was a total rollercoaster for me. I always wanted to build my own products but I was not able to find a focus and time to do so because I was running the other business, a dev company developing web & mobile applications.
TL;DR
- I sold the company (hardest decision ever)
- Overcoming depression afterward
- Starting from scratch again, with new ideas, new projects
- Get in touch with other Indie Hackers
- Going all-in on my SaaS products
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