Re:Startup School's “Aspiring Founders” track is reopening a...
by amozoss on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @01:17AM
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Good summary. 3 is hard for me to swallow, because I've painfully learned it the hard way (3 times) to not rely on a one-time big release to carry my products to victory.
1st product - great initial traction (HN front page for a few hours, featured on Product hunt, reviewed by a youtuber with decent following). What you might call a big release, but then I did nothing and it fizzled out. It now gets no traffic what so ever.
2nd product - did the same as my 1st, got no traction on launch day. I've just left it on the back burner. Haven't done much since.
3rd product - decided to share before doing a big release and luckily it's turned out better so far (getting organic traffic), but I still got drawn to trying a big release. Launch day came and went and you wouldn't even notice if you glanced at user sign-ups.
To be honest, it's hard not to get your hopes up though that your HN or reddit post will go viral. That's not typically how it works though, at least from my experience.
1st product - great initial traction (HN front page for a few hours, featured on Product hunt, reviewed by a youtuber with decent following). What you might call a big release, but then I did nothing and it fizzled out. It now gets no traffic what so ever.
2nd product - did the same as my 1st, got no traction on launch day. I've just left it on the back burner. Haven't done much since.
3rd product - decided to share before doing a big release and luckily it's turned out better so far (getting organic traffic), but I still got drawn to trying a big release. Launch day came and went and you wouldn't even notice if you glanced at user sign-ups.
To be honest, it's hard not to get your hopes up though that your HN or reddit post will go viral. That's not typically how it works though, at least from my experience.