Romain Simon
@romainsimon
I've never really used Product Hunt as a user, only to launch things.
It was cool when everyone launched with 0 user to get some early feedback. Now everyone waits to have users to get upvotes & pay for advertising.
It has become useless except for getting a high DR backlink.
I mean even @levelsio is not posting his own projects there anymore.
I prefer to focus on real acquisition channels.
And for the community part, it's way better here on WIP.
I completely agree with you. Recently after actively spending months on PH, I can say other Indie Hacker communities like WIP and IH are way better than PH community which is kinda become like social media influence crap. Most of the discussions only happen to gain followers and benefit launch upvote count rather than genuine feedback oriented which it used to be.
Thanks for the tips!
I've watched a few Youtube videos about it in the meantime.
I made a Discord and invited all my waitlist users... we'll see how it goes but seems to be quite a full time job 😅
I guess so. After having used Heroku, AWS, Digital Ocean and then Rende, it is my preferred option.
I might switch to someting else when it becomes too costly, but that's the easiest way to get something running without managing any infra.
No I don't. I used it 15 years ago.
If you want something as simple you should look at render.com
hm so render is the new kid on the block...
I guess so. After having used Heroku, AWS, Digital Ocean and then Rende, it is my preferred option.
I might switch to someting else when it becomes too costly, but that's the easiest way to get something running without managing any infra.
Yes it's a real need to grow SEO.
I think however the best seeling proof would be to have a high DA on your own website.
Hehe. This domain is only a week or two old 😝
But fair point ;)
I've had similar issue in the past with #beanvest and the solution I found is have a 1$ trial.
However you should try to remove the trial entirely.
I don't know if it's related, but maybe use your own domain instead of stripe-app-production-5848.up.railway.app for your API?
It's all solved now, thank you for your help!