A no-code tool for your automated emails
Tools to send automated emails require a lot of config and are usually quite pricy. We make a tool that integrates beautifully with the no-code stack at a reasonable price, with an intuitive Trello-like UI.
So happy to share with this community that today I got my first paying customer. A while ago I started a series of posts where I shared my daily updates with the goal of getting to my first paying customer and today's that day. It's been exactly 112 days since that first post.
I thought I'd share the things I think I learned along the way that got me here:
Hope these ideas help someone. This is the app I'm building: https://palabra.io
Happy to share with this wonderful community that a friend is joining me as a co-founder. She's an amazing person and has a lot of experience in many things that matter (like talking to people, product, and working like a beast!).
We are also looking to hire our first dev! More on this soon :)
After 6 months of work and 3 pivots (this is actually my last pivot and been working on it for 4 weeks), we are live on Product Hunt!
We are focusing on helping people send sequences of emails easily, automated or not, something that most email mktg tools make very hard to do.
I would really appreciate your upvote!
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/palabra
Very happy to share with this community that after a month or so of participating in the pioneer.app tournament we were selected as winners.
That means we get mentorship from some of the wiser people on the industry like Superhuman's founder Rahul Vohra or Daniel Gross himself.
We also get 100k in AWS credits which couldn't come at a better time.
Our app: palabra.io
If you have any questions about Palabra or Pioneer I'm happy to help :)
Wasn't expecting to post it on PH for some days but today we started receiving a lot of signups out of the blue and I realized someone hunted our new product: Forms.
If you tried it would love to hear your thoughts!
This week I launched a new newsletter aimed at Indie Hackers who know nothing about marketing: Marketing for Indie Hackers.
I got 130 subscribers on the first 4 days of sharing it online in a couple of places (mostly here, Hackers News and Reddit). A third of the subscribers came from HN, so that's a good thing to note for the future. I don't usually post things there.
Now it's time to deliver! You can subscribe here if you want.
After reading and listening to all content under the sun on how to market a bootstrapped project I decided to share some of these insights with others.
I'm not a fan of consultants with zero experience telling you how to run a startup so the approach of this newsletter will be to share industry experts' content on the subject.
But like, digested, organized into topics content on the subject.
👉 You can subscribe here if you are interested!
It never feels like its the right time to rewrite a whole app but since I went through a couple of pivots the codebase and the design were all over the place.
I decided to invest a week of dev time rebuilding the frontend from scratch and I think it paid off. I'm using React/Apollo and Evergreen for my components, which made it much faster to do everything and the app has a corporate look I like.
The app is much faster now and loading states/errors are well handled so it gives feedback to the user, which it didn't do before.
Would really appreciate comments from the community :)
App: http://app.palabra.io/ (👈 the one I rewrote)
Website: https://www.palabra.io/?ref=indie
After giving it some thought it seemed to me that it was time to refresh the website. The old version didn't explain our most important features clearly enough.
I'm a bit scared that the landing page is now overly promising and the truth is at least 1 or 2 features are still a work in progress. But I thought it would be a good way to validate the roadmap for the next month.
How do you feel about the new landing page?
Do you understand what we do?
Do you need a tool like this?
Website: https://www.palabra.io/?ref=indie
After 19 days of development (since last big pivot) the beta version of the app is finally out: https://www.palabra.io/?ref=indie
I decided to make it open to the public, instead of waiting to have more features. I hope that, by watching how the users interact with the app and their feedback, I can adjust the roadmap for what's next.
I sent an email to my list of subscribers (the people who had registered to try the app when it was ready) and 2 registered on the first few hours 🎉
My next milestone is to get my first paying customer 🙂.
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Tools to send automated emails require a lot of config and are usually quite pricy. We make a tool that integrates beautifully with the no-code stack at a reasonable price, with an intuitive Trello-like UI.