17k visitors in 7 days

I launched Slingcode a week ago and I've been a bit overwhelmed by the response on social media, Hacker News etc. so I completely forgot to do basic web analytics. Today I finally got around to checking, and according to goaccess logfile analyzer there have been 17k visitors to the front page in the last 7 days! Of those, more than 5k have tried out the app. I couldn't be happier with this result. Super pumped.

I'm continuing marketing with the most recent effort being a post on dev.to about it. That has gone very well and is currently at just shy of 100 reactions:

https://dev.to/chr15m/i-built-an-online-code-editor-3aj5

One thing I've learned from this community which has helped so much with this is when you launch something you have to spend time crafting posts for each channel individually. That's really paid off here.

I'm also just shy of 2k YouTube views in one week and I am sure it's because of launching on multiple sites and having them all link back to the YouTube intro.

One thing I will change for next time is to stagger the launches more. On launch day I got super impatient and after 3.5 months of dev I couldn't resist launching to Hacker News, Indie Hackers, and Product Hunt all at the same time. HN ended up killing it and reaching #5 on the front page, but the PH and IH posts both did poorly. So next time I'll do them one day at a time and try to build momentum.

After this has all calmed down my plan for generating some revenue is educational screencasts. I've just done one on building a basic React web app without command line or nodejs, using Slingcode and I'll keep working on these in the next few weeks.

Will report back on how this goes.