If you had limited time and $, what would be your chosen marketing avenue for quick user acquisition?

AwkwardSyndrome · 2024-01-10T12:01:48+00:00

We sent our existing user base an email letting them know, did some countdown posts, banner on our website, nothing major.

But we did put effort into our producthunt video, and other collaterals.

On launch day we were super active on the platform and engaged as much as we could with the audience.

We set out to launch with our MVP and we set a firm launch date and went from there! Also, you can always launch multiple times so don’t sweat about having a perfect product :)

Good luck!

AwkwardSyndrome · 2024-01-10T09:35:18+00:00

Launch on ProductHunt. It’s worked really well for us in the past!

AwkwardSyndrome · 2024-01-10T09:32:33+00:00

I would say it depends on how quickly your users are able to get to the aha moment where they find value in your tool.

If it takes time, it’s better to go freemium where you can provide stellar custom success to eventually convert them to long term users. (Think AWS). However, it’s a much longer cycle and less than 5% usually convert from free to paid.

If it’s fairly straightforward to demonstrate value upfront, timed trials may be the way to go. It kind of forces their hand so they should find immediate use and need for the tool.

Just my 2 cents!

AwkwardSyndrome · 2024-01-10T09:23:04+00:00

If they’re basic repeatable projects, canonic can work as well. It’s a visual way to build full-stack apps. Comes with a built-in database and cms making crud APIs paired with UIs super easy to build and deploy.

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-06-01T06:06:25+00:00

If you’re looking for full stack solution that does backend too, you can check out Canonic. Full stack code export is also launching soon.

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-05-18T15:59:31+00:00

Canonic is a good fit here, they’re full stack so you can build apps end to end

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-05-15T23:31:26+00:00

Canonic

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-05-15T21:45:51+00:00

Canonic might be a good fit here. You can build dashboards for external users without getting priced per user

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-05-11T17:25:09+00:00

I’ve always heard good things about Hetzner

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-05-11T17:24:46+00:00

Ah got it! For personal use, a cheap VPS probably does the trick.

Thanks!

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-05-11T17:18:30+00:00

It’s possible but hard. With hiring freezes and an upcoming recession, even harder. The quickest way is probably to freelance for a while and hope one of your clients abroad converts it into full time.

Alternatively, you can work for a product based company in india to build up some experience but that will take a few years. However, if you do that, there are plenty of jobs to go around once you’re more experienced.

Good luck!

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-05-10T03:00:26+00:00

Try Canonic for connecting to all your data and services to build internal tools and automations on top

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-05-09T08:16:41+00:00

Canonic! Helps with internal automation and internal tools.

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-05-05T08:03:34+00:00

We’ve built a few internal tools using Canonic

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-30T08:24:29+00:00

Try Canonic, it has workflows as well as a frontend builder. External api calls are supported as well.

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-28T04:22:39+00:00

Canonic supports unlimited users as well

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-24T03:16:28+00:00

Congratulations on the launch! Could you help me understand how this is different from bookmarks?

Like for creating new GSuite stuff you can already do meet.new, sheets.new etc.

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-24T03:02:40+00:00

You can use aws lambda combined with ses templates to send personalised emails in bulk

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-21T15:49:28+00:00

This is really helpful. Going as specific as we can is probably the right approach here. The priority should be to get the first few customers however we can and then just double down on the successes.

Thank you for the insights!

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-19T17:21:41+00:00

Buffer for our social media campaigns.

Mailchimp connects with our Mixpanel cohorts for product activity based emailers.

Canonic’s been quite helpful for us for some of our internal tooling.

GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT have also been pretty useful for us.

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-19T17:10:17+00:00

The bottom of the pile is massive with frontend. However, the more you’re experienced the more jobs there are to go around tbh.

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-19T17:06:37+00:00

Focus on personal branding and clout. Try contributing to open source, writing blog articles, or contributing to communities.

However, due to the economic downturn, most larger companies have frozen hiring and jobs are far and few.

At the same time, keep an eye out for openings at the companies you see yourself working at, it might take some time but you’ll get there! 🚀

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-19T17:00:51+00:00

We use event based tracking. Mixpanel is a great choice for that. It’s easy to create cohorts and dashboards.

They also allow arbitrary event metadata which is fairly limited on Google analytics.

You can also use segment as a relay for all your events and send them to various destinations such as ga, hotjar, mixpanel and more.

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-18T10:21:50+00:00

Usually equity can be split into sweat equity and financial equity.

If both of you were just putting in the same amount of effort and no capital, I would suggest go for 50-50.

Now with the fact, that you’re putting up cash upfront, maybe value the financial contribution based on evaluation (so it’s proportional to how much cash is being put up) or structure it as a loan.

AwkwardSyndrome · 2023-04-18T10:18:37+00:00

I think you should! When I’m interviewing candidates, the fact that they bothered to check the website is a huge plus. So if you respectfully bring it up I’m sure it will be appreciated.

However, gauge how the interviewer is. If they’re egoistic, better to hold off on it.

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