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.