So great, thanks Florian

I have some technical limitations I've become aware of and am trying to fix first 😅

It's beautiful!

I've attached some images of little css issues/types/alignments I saw.

I think perhaps from the visuals the lowest hanging fruit would be to give the actual forest tree map a visual upgrade. I think the colors fall flat a bit (potentially too low saturation). Maybe emoji trees? Not sure but think a bigger forest should look more awesome somehow. Maybe bigger forests get more emoji wildlife automatically, moving around the forest or randomly created? Tricky to get right

👋 Hi Damon nice to meet you too

Great suggestions! Could you elaborate on what you mean by how does it work? Do you mean technically or setup or something else?

Thanks Jankees :)

Thanks for the kind reply and sharing of your experiences @icesofty ! Gotcha I did post to hackernews and indiehackers but I didn't put in as much time there. Will give it another try

First off thank you for taking the time to write this in depth answer.

1) I did make the mistake of not building an email list/marketing when I started working on the product. I spoke to some potential customers but I didn't build up anything around this. I also posted in facebook groups, indiehackers, HN, twitter and direct messaged some friends of mine. What other approaches would you recommend?

2) I wasn't expecting that, but I was expecting to make the front page. Don't think I got a single registered user and its free

3) Thats a great suggestion thanks

4) Yeah I see now I could improve this

Thanks for the advice again and I might take you up on the twitter DM offer!

Hm yes that might have been better. I read a couple "launch on product hunt" blog posts and it seemed like because hunter's followings don't get notified by email anymore that the hunter isn't particularly important anymore. It also seemed like many recent launches I looked at were hunted by their makers so I went with that. Next time maybe I should put more care into that. Thanks for the links, will check it out!

Hey Marc!

Thanks I found myself becoming a manager and I realized I prefer crafting and building products to managing. I am currently working 4 days a week as CTO and spending the rest of the time working on codebird/other projects with the aim to ala bootstrap solo founder.

I think raising funds is necessary for some types of startups and its a fine way to go for many startups if you're not sure what you're doing. Hiring great people is a lot of work and its hard to do and expensive and I think its a mistake to try to solve problems by throwing more people at them.

Thanks for posting the links!

Unfortunately not my dog but thought people might enjoy a cute dog

Seems reasonable enough