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Hi! i m new here! How has your experience been with the wip community? How has it helped you in your indiejourney? Any tangible results might be good to share.

In mid-2020, I had first pivoted my startup Studiolist.org to something else (because of COVID-19)  and then stopped working on it because I didn’t know exactly how to continue. Now, the Substack at https://studiolist.substack.com (that is also on hold) is getting traction. Every day (since Nov ...

So I've launched today on ProductHunt and I don't think I'm going to get to the front page from new. I've got 11 upvotes mainly from people I asked to upvote and I'm not sure what to do to get more engagement. What did I do wrong? Was my product not engaging or relevant or well executed in the m...

As the title describes, when can you add the "As Seen In" badges? I've noticed a number of large companies have signed up and are using my app. In order to add badges for social proof, do you reach out to these companies and ask for permission or did you say fuck it and added them once they used ...

I want to execute right now. But the execution of the idea would require me to sit even more in front of the computer (though I’m currently aiming at getting away from the machine more often). It’s a dilemma. How would you go about this? And what questions would you answer for yourself to iden...

Hi guys, I'm struggling to shift from building to marketing and planning to do a big marketing push this September. Is anyone interested in setting some goals, sharing strategies, results, etc? Generally, holding each other accountable. I've set up a little airtable where you can sign up and se...

I've been building a commitment device for bloggers for the last weeks. I had the name Write or Die in mind but silly me I've just realized there's another app with the same name. Now I'm pondering other names but I feel I've lost perspective - so I need your help.  For context, it's a website ...

Scenario: you have <app> with 500 users registered user. You have their emails in your <app> database, as they used that when they signed up for your <app>.  You want to send out some marketing stuff and plan on doing it every once in a while. Do you: 1) query your own database and manually w...

I'm building a real estate platform for a specific market that has no English speaking platform yet. I want realtors to publish their listings (for a fee) on my website but how do I convince them on my platform if it has no traffic yet? It's kind of like a chicken and egg problem. If there's no c...

Hey everyone, I want to experiment with running social media ads and see if they lead to eBook sales. At the relatively high price for the sale, I think it might work pretty well but it's just a theory. I am primarily interested in IG/FB because I think it's the best place for my TA (expats), bu...

I'm planning to launch on Product Hunt tomorrow, because it's the first tuesday of november, but It's also US elections... Maybe there'll be less competition. But maybe also there will be nobody on Product Hunt.  How stupid is this? EDIT: Let's go 👉 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/melies For...

I recently opened social accounts for Zenpen, but I'm flooded with bots instead of getting human engagement. On X 90% of the follows are bots. On Pinterest, most of the views are bots. This makes me think that some of the visits I see in my analytics are bots too. Perhaps it‘s time to change mar...

Looking for email services recommendations. I'll need to send emails for:  - verification  - daily reminders & status updates - weekly updates - notifications (likes & comments) likely batched In the past I've used sendmail and postfix but I only needed to send emails to people in my own domain...

I’m creating an annual report that documents real-life, current statistics on service providers’ websites to create an accessible reference tool for people who want to build their business off social media. For this, I’m defining service providers as freelancers (like web devs, designers, writer...

Hey all! I'm a frontend dev. Wondering if anyone would be interested in trading some coding time in exchange for some marketing, if you've got some expertise in that area.

Right now I have a handful of customers on the $29/mo plan. I feel like there's more potential though, but it's a tricky product to market. Any suggestions on how I can grow revenue without substantial investments in the product itself? I'm considering adding a cheaper plan ($7/mo) with a lower...

I'm curious if anyone has used Ship and what you got out of it?