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I want to help founders and teams leverage async communication in a matter of minutes. I built MyCheckins because I needed a tool to run async meetings and build feedback loops with my team. Simple and affordable.
August was good. Even though I spent the majority of my time building product, we reached 200 user sign-ups for MyCheckins (https://mycheckins.io).
How did I get here?
While sign-ups have been decent, I do see a big issue with retention. I think the next item to target is fixing retention. There are a lot of things to work on:
Hoping to come back at the end of this month with more updates. Cheers!
After 3 weeks of grinding it out with cold emails - I finally hit 20 WAUs on MyCheckins (https://mycheckins.io). Seeing that curve shoot up on Mixpanel is a sweet, sweet feeling.
How did I get here? Cold emailing. Something I never really expected to work.
I sent around 350 cold emails in the last three weeks. Stats? Average open rate - 61.3%, Average CTR - 19.7%.
The first 30 emails were.. bad. Too long, not enough value, and trying to go from intro to sign-up in a single shot.
I started splitting emails into cohorts of 30 at the end of the first week and started viewing each set as an experiment. I would send a set, study the metrics, learn and iterate on the next attempt.
My three top takeaways from this exercise:
I hope someone finds this useful. Cheers!
After 3 weeks of grinding it out with cold emails - I finally hit 20 WAUs on MyCheckins (https://mycheckins.io). Seeing that curve shoot up on Mixpanel is a sweet, sweet feeling.
How did I get here? Cold emailing. Something I never really expected to work.
I sent around 350 cold emails in the last three weeks. Stats? Average open rate - 61.3%, Average CTR - 19.7%.
The first 30 emails were.. bad. Too long, not enough value, and trying to go from intro to sign-up in a single shot.
I started splitting emails into cohorts of 30 at the end of the first week and started viewing each set as an experiment. I would send a set, study the metrics, learn and iterate on the next attempt.
My three top takeaways from this exercise:
I hope someone finds this useful. Cheers!
I never realized how quickly the last few months went by. In the last three months:
So here we are with the public beta. Today was the first day of finding users and putting the product out there. It's tough, but each new sign-up puts a bigger and bigger smile on my face.
(You can check it out here: https://mycheckins.io)
Some learnings from March-June:
After 6 weeks of work, we're done building the MVP! It was definitely a massive learning curve for me, building my first software product. But it was full of important lessons.
The MVP is far from how I imagine the product being. The inner perfectionist in me wants to start over and spend time getting every pixel perfect. But it's time to do some user research now before we put more time into developing the product.
This marks the start of our user research phase. Check us out here: https://mycheckins.io :)
I want to help founders and teams leverage async communication in a matter of minutes. I built MyCheckins because I needed a tool to run async meetings and build feedback loops with my team. Simple and affordable.