Mightyboards

How to build a landing page:

1. Write an interesting milestone on Indie Hackers
2. Watch it gain traction
3. Panic when you realise you don't have a landing page
4. Build your landing page at the speed of light, fumbling over VIM shortcuts in your panic

Lessons learned

Build a landing page before you post anything about your project. And make sure it has a "get notified" email form. And make sure it has analytics!

Luckily, I'd been working on a logo and colour scheme the night before in Sketch so had something to work with.

• Built using plain old HTML & CSS
• Hosted on Netlify
• Email Octopus for email signup form
• Simple Analytics for tracking

Link - www.mightyboards.net

TL;DR - I had the domain mighty.io all ready to start working on Mightyboards. Then a domain broker contacted me on behalf of a buyer and we ended up negotiated a 5-figure price!! 😲

I initially ignored the first few requests from the broker thinking it was spam. When they persisted, I replied and soon found myself in a negotiation.

Since I thought it was spammy, I set a very high starting price to scare them off so I could carry on with my day - I had plans for mighty.io and didn't think I'd be selling. To my surprise, they responded fast with a lower but still reasonable offer. We ended up settling on a price somewhere in between.

I still didn't believe it would happen even at the last stage of the escrow process. I even got repeated, impatient emails from the broker because I wasn't replying in a timely manner 😂 I was paragliding in the Dolomites at the time so screen time and phone reception were hard to come by.

This came completely out of the blue and was my first ever domain name sale! Some of the proceeds will go towards getting Mightyboards up and running.

I've since purchased a new domain name: mightyboards.net

I'm building Mightyboards in public and you can follow along on Indie Hackers or find me on twitter @samuellevy