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Released 3 clickable demos

Upgraded three old demo-projects and re-created them with newest version of QuickAdminPanel and on newest framework Laravel 6.

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    Hey, I suggest you update this post for a quick recap of what your app does. Not sure most of the people who read this will have or remember context.

    That being said, I like how the demos work with the login form pre-filled and having the ability to post data because you refresh them every hour.

    Hope visitors in your funnel like them too!

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      Thanks, I'm still trying to figure out what exactly to post here. Milestones are more about putting out the progress, mostly for yourself and for inspiration for other IndieHackers, these are not "promotional" posts cause IndieHackers are not exactly my audience.

      Related to this fact - I've started participating in IndieHackers forum last weekend, and it brought some audience to QuickAdminPanel, but look at this screenshot at the ENGAGEMENT of that audience: https://twitter.com/PovilasKorop/status/1173970620528386049
      So majority of people here are interested in what you do but they are not buyers. My buyers are elsewhere.

      So I'm planning to use IndieHackers more for inspiration and community accountability, but not investing in it as "content marketing".

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        Fair enough! You're right about people here being interested in what others are doing and giving actionable feedback, et cetera.

        Indie Hackers is a small, highly engaging community, and you're correct in using it for inspiration and community accountability. However, a small subset of them may end up being your buyers too!

        It's obviously possible that the subset is too small for you to care about. But I've seen some apps get a lot of buyers from here too! Especially if their product or service act as enablers for "Indie Hackers" (as in bootstrapped entrepreneurs) in some sense. For e.g. Sales / Marketing books or courses, Deployment / Testing platforms.

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          We'll see, maybe someone will accidentally convert, but I have enough scale in other marketing channels at the moment. Here on IndieHackers I come to help fellow IndieHackers and share my thoughts like a diary, not promote stuff.

          And yes it depends on niche/category, QuickAdminPanel is aimed at developers but currently exploring "low-code" movement category and then after some re-positioning it may become more of an interesting to this audience.

          Finally, you're saying IndieHackers is small and highly engaging? I would say it used to be like that a year ago, now look at the posts - there are 50 of them every day, majority of them are with 0 value to others (writing about themselves), and has 0 comments (as a consequence). So it kinda became too crowded, only around 10-20% of the content is actually useful, in my opinion.

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            I think those numbers are actually pretty good. Most communities (Youtube, reddit, FB, HN, LI, and now even IH) are made up of 80% trash content (hence no engagement i.e. upvotes, comments).

            It's small because 50 posts a day is literally nothing when compared to a medium sized or big online community.

            For what's valuable to others: I think this community in particular finds value in seeing what others are up to, what works for them and doesn't and also how they make progress (so as to find something to compare themselves with), even if the content is a shameless plug.

            Anyways, I understand that there could be more content that's positioned towards helping others more and themselves less and that you are not using IH right now for content marketing.

            Cheers and good luck for QuickAdminPanel!

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