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Launched on ProductHunt

It was not the best experience in the world :P

I was really excited at first, it was our first product being shipped, my blood was boiling to show it to people and hear their thoughts.

But, we posted, and got no questions nor traffic from there, Product Hunt kinda is maybe our target public considering a lot of them are entrepreneurs and could need a form backend service, but I got nothing out of there.

We have no experience at all with business, we think that launching without a Hunter was a mistake, got no upvotes at the beginning to even get visibility on popular tab, that I am taking to heart (look for a Hunter next time I launch something there).

But we already recovered of this unforeseen and already got back to improving our SaaS and focusing on SEO for inbound traffic.

We hope we have a better milestone to post here in a month or two :P

Vinicius Flores

, Co-Founder of

SmartForms

on August 16, 2019

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Looks like a really solid product, full featured and pretty polished congrats on getting it live! Shame about the PH launch but don’t let it discourage you 🙌

hamishirving

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  Thanks, man!
  We were upset at first but stayed yesterday reading about growth and marketing and now we are all fired up to keep on trying and excited about next market plays :P
  
  We were innocent about PH too, launching without a hunter and almost no audience, but lesson learned :D
  
  Vinicius Flores
  
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Nice Product guys!
I've been struggling with forms and to automate certain tasks for months.
I think there is a really big market for solutions and integrations for people with limited or none coding abilities; like me :)
This is an integration era, the wheel has been already built and you need to find the parts of the puzzle.
Way to go guys!
If you need any help making your product visible I can give you a hand

Cheers !

juanchov

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  Thanks for your insight, I really appreciate it!
  
  I really agree with you and I think that "no code" has been trending and is getting more and more value, hope we can be useful, hahaha :D
  
  Getting visibility really is being a hard road... I'm trying Google ads, but it is way too expensive for bootstrappers like us :/
  
  Really would love to know about your ideas of getting my product visible :P
  
  Thanks a lot!
  
  Vinicius Flores
  
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    Hello Vini!
    
    I imagine what you are going through but always remember that if your are "too in" maybe you have to take a few steps backwards.
    
    I think the product is solid but the communication needs to be improved. Some questions need to be solved, like: who do you think this tool is going to help, how does your typical customer be like, do you have to sophisticated or simple in terms of language, or maybe in the middle.
    I always think that a person is going pick your product not because of your cool reporting or awesome dashboard but how those reports help them save time or money.
    I think the communication is key and in my opinion you have to work on that to convert users into visitors.
    
    If you need anything else let me know.
    
    juanchov
    
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