100 users joined Owwly
by Piotr BartoszekMission unblocked 🔓 After 2 months from last big release (sign in option included) - Owwly has 100 logged in users on the board. Pretty big step forward for us. ⛳️
We noticed that users mostly log in and add their own products to the website. I think we need to work on some kind of onboarding to increase the amount of posts added during first visit. I am also not sure if people know that can add as many posts as they want to. Usually one post per one product. This is a thing which we would like to focus on in the next weeks.
Next step - 200 users and more posts about product’s progress!
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Congrats Piotr! It's great to see Owwly's progress. What are some of the lessons you've learned over the last year that you would recommend to others starting now?
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Hi @ChrisGG, thank you for kind words :) Regarding your question - please let me use my old post where I described my takeaways from the last release
- Holidays it’s a not good time to plan an update 💀
- Procrastination is inevitable. Prepare green tea and stay calm.
- You know nothing about marketing… That’s right. Even the best products will be nothing without a tone of time spent on marketing. Below you can find websites which I used last months:
a. IndieHackers
b. ProductHunt (Makers section)
c. Reddit
- r/designcritiques
- r/imadethis
- r/sideproject
- r/startups
d. Spectrum
e. Makerlog
- It’s possible to maintain a website and work on new things with only two people on the board (Design+Marketing+Backend+Frontend). And we’re still alive!
- You thinking about your product even if you slip 😴
- Bad day -> good day -> bad day -> good day …
- Developers like to complain to designers when they see design first time 😜. Be polite and supportive.
- Determine design language/style guidelines at the beginning.
- Partners who understand your passion and give you freedom are a treasure. Thank you for our girls 😘
- Don’t try to explain to your mom what are you doing 💁
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Very useful tips!
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Thanks so much! This is really useful!
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Hi @piotrbartoszek, what is Spectrum? I tried to look it up in google, and cannot find any tool that makes sense to use for a maker. 😅
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I love the design, it's clean and simple and works smoothly when scrolling and clicking a bunch or random stuff! Well done 🎉.
Here's my initial thoughts as a first time user - I'm just not so sure exactly what I should do on the site. Yeah I click around and see links to other pages / sites / apps ... but what is the real value proposition you are providing on the site? I'm not really sure what I'm getting if I sign up.
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Congrats!!
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Congrats on this milestone Piotr. Really love the UI of the site.
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Thank you so much @belfastjim Clean and simple UI was our main goal during development phase ;)
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