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Results of the first launch on IH

Nine days ago April 3 I wrote an article on IndieHackers about the presentation slides software I built.

MeetSlides allows to create slides really fast, while staying focused on creating supportive slides for your main message.

Here I would love to share some insights I discovered after the publishing the first article.

TLTR: IndieHackers worth publishing you product because the community is alive and people would leave you some real feedback.

RESULT IN NINE DAYS

258 visitors, 250 new visitors -- google analytics, see screenshots
Four (4) meaningful comments on IH. It's a lot. When publishing on ProductHunt I might of have hundreds of upvotes and some cheer-up comments but truly MEANINGFUL comment was rare, if any.
Found quite many problems with website, see details below
The problems I found

#1 Sign up was broken
I used google firebase authentification and CDN, but when I changed CDN to vercel then google confirm email link got broken. Needed to change DNS/Auth settings.

#2 Feedback form was extremely obtrusive
It appear to often and quite randomly. Some people closed window just after dialog appeared. Fixed that.

#3 Title of the article was too vague
It's not obvious what product does from the article title, LOL

#4 Wrong choice of analytics tools
I'm engineer and so I showed results to my friend who is good with marketing and they told I should change analytics to see everything in one place. So, I switched.

In short, IndieHackers launch was valuable for the following reasons:
-- I found and fixed very obvious problems with the website
-- I configured analytics to track the real data
-- I got FOUR REAL comments which shows IndieHackers community alive and cares.
-- I got 250 new visitors to website and I learned from their experiences.

, Founder of Icon for MeetSlides
MeetSlides
on April 12, 2023