Six Months of Tiny Projects

Re:Six Months of Tiny Projects by justiceforsaas on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:12AM (#25137589)

The gist of the article is: The OP created a tiny project, launched it on Product Hunt/Hacker News, and moved to creating another project. I'm glad he acknowledges the problem with this:

"A Product Hunt launch can easily get you a spike in traffic, but afterwards I really don't know what I'm doing".

Here are some tips to help with this:

1) Explore more "steady" acquisition channels. Yes, PH/HN are "spike-y" channels and they're often not enough to have a business generating sustainable income. Read "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg (I'm also doing some research on this topic [1]).

2) Maybe flip the script and do the opposite? Choose 1 or 2 promising projects, and do "six months of exploring user acquisition". Test SEO, FB/Google Ads, partnerships, affiliates, appstores and so on.

Good luck!

[1] https://firstpayingusers.com

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Re:Six Months of Tiny Projects by dang on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:45PM (#25140660)

Please stop spamming HN with your link. We just asked you about this yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25128211

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Re:Six Months of Tiny Projects by asadlionpk on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:57PM (#25141667)

It's amazing you are able to discover this kind of not-so-submarine-spamming.

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Re:Six Months of Tiny Projects by justiceforsaas on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:57PM (#25141669)

Oh, sorry, I haven't seen it. Saw it now. Is there a way to get in touch?

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Re:Six Months of Tiny Projects by moneywoes on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:02PM (#25144985)

Thank you.

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Re:Six Months of Tiny Projects by mritchie712 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:40AM (#25138890)

+1 for Traction. I reached out to Gabriel on Twitter about creating an app companion to the book to guide you thru the process. He was supportive and it's on my side project list for December or early next year.

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