Plz Dm Me
Plz DM Me helps makers automate their Twitter DMs.
I saw tons of people on Twitter complaining about the DM experience and knew something had to be done.
Plz DM Me was a fun project to work on, but it doesn't have the type of legs I would like out of a side project.
I learned a ton about the Twitter API (which was the goal) and built something that others used.
Because Vercel & Supabase have such reasonable paid plans, I am planning on running this project as a completely free resource for folks to use.
The code has also been open-sourced if you're looking for example SaaS projects out there that use Stripe, Next.js, Tailwind, and Vercel hosting.
Read more: https://plzdm.me/blog/free-and-open-source
Okay, so my original landing page wasn’t that great. If I thought that, of course potential buyers thought the same.
I had been convinced by Christian Genco to take a course on copywriting for landing pages. It paid off.
Check out my notes on it here:
https://newsletter.drew.tech/issues/finding-feedback-as-an-indiehacker-issue-4-461018
Here’s the before and after:
I decided I wanted to iterate quickly on the landing page & not spend a ton of time getting it set up.
Even though I’m a senior developer, I went the no code route. (More people should do this while starting projects)
I’ve since moved the landing page to a Next.js project, but no code helped me focus on the product first.
Here’s a link to the original landing page: https://plzdmme.carrd.co/
I had seen one too many Tweets complaining about the DM user experience.
I decided to look at the API and see if anything could be done.
The findings: they already built something to help people who have way too many DMs, they just never rolled it out to average users.
Twitter welcome messages.
The answer to busy, popular Twitter account’s prayers.