So, I've just started my newsletter and was thinking about how to get more subscribers. Otherwise, who I should send emails to? 馃
My discovery was that it's totally okay to launch newsletters on Product Hunt. At first, I thought that it's not possible, since it's not a real product, barely a sign-up form.
But it's not true, PH loves newsletters.
Then almost on the same day, I decided to launch it. Was trying to make some nice examples of UI tips, but I couldn't fix some bugs. Then I stopped worrying and just let it be.
Almost immediately it got featured.
I posted in on Sunday so that I don't have big competition in exchange for lower traffic. However, the conversion rate was crazy: I got maybe 1.5k visits and ~1k subs.
Another bunch of subs came from Twitter since I made some traction over there.
So, now I have some ground and ready to communicate with my audience. I'll keep trying to reach out to more people, for sure!