UX Brains
A curated knowledge collection for all things UX.
The first week since launching UX Brains exceeded all of my expectations. Not only number wise, but also in regards to the community feedback, I received for the website. I did not encounter a single negative comment about the project and made many new connections on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Indie Hackers.
📈 The numbers:
- 3.8k unique visitors that accounted for a total of 8.9k pageviews
- 40+ articles suggested by the community (~20 already approved and listed)
- 20 newsletter signups
⚙️ Patch notes for week 1:
- Added newsletter signup
- Improved the website's footer
- Added a Ko-fi link so people can support the project
👨🎓 The learnings:
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Even a small side project like UX Brains needs a lot of attention and care if you want to do it properly
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Releasing the MVP as soon as possible was the right decision (no reason to be anxious thinking the project is not pristine enough)
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Identifying the right channels is a lot of work and it takes some bravery to share and put yourself out there (it’s a great feeling tho!)
I implemented a newsletter in order to get some reactivation possibility for interested users. I also redesigned my footer and linked the twitter of my logo designer.
I also identified some new channels to share the project in and posted a few links here and there. Curious to see how much traction I will get in the different channels.
After spending two weeks of ideating, building the website, and creating the database I launched the product and shared it with my network.
I used Webflow to create the website, integrated an Airtable and added Plausible as a privacy-focused analytics tool.
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Great idea, well done! I checked your website, and i'd love to hear about the way it works in the back. You have a list of interesting articles that you come by and you upload it? Do you have an idea about how to scale it or maybe even monetise it?
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Thank you. Yeah. that's pretty much how it works in the back. I collected most of the content over the years by simply bookmarking them. I got frustrated that they were so poorly organized in my browser and it got difficult for me to revisit them. This is why I came up with the project since I thought it might be interesting for other people to gain access to them in a more organized way. Sadly it took very long to manually transfer them into the database so I need to come up with a more efficient solution soon if I want to grow the collection.
Right now I don't have a definite plan to scale the project. I would love to add a little tl;dr to every article, but that would probably take years. I also don't intend to monetize the project. I am getting a lot of value from it in other ways already and I am just happy that I am able to provide something useful for others for now.
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Impressive figures 😊