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If you want a top-notch landing page, you have found the best place to get it done!
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Product and landing page improvements, meeting makers in Lisbon, and organizing a Hackathon ✨
Hey there, I’m André – tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast. If you’re new here, LaunchFast is a stack designed to help web developers speed up their project development process, from launch to scale. I’m building in public, and I’ve been sharing daily updates on my journey.
First of all, apologies for not having written as many updates as I used to. I was trying something out but I’ve...
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The Art of Crafting a Landing Page That Converts
Hey there, I’m André – tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast. If you’re new here, LaunchFast is a stack designed to help web developers speed up their project development process, from launch to scale. I’m building in public, and I’ve been sharing daily updates on my journey.
Today, I’m taking you behind the scenes of one of the toughest parts of this journey: building a landing page...
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How to reach a wide audience on social media
If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack designed to help web developers significantly speed up their project development time. I post daily updates on my journey and progress.
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Almost every day I share my journey in public. I do this on 24 different platforms. Here's how you can do it too:
1. Write an article in Markdown
2. Open the 24...
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How to reach a wide audience on social media
If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack designed to help web developers significantly speed up their project development time. I post daily updates on my journey and progress.
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Almost every day I share my journey in public. I do this on 24 different platforms. Here's how you can do it too:
1. Write an article in Markdown
2. Open the 24...
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Improving the conversion rate 💰
If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack designed to help web developers significantly speed up their project development time. I post daily updates on my journey and progress.
After spending a few days with my family, I’m back developing LaunchFast.
I’ve been thinking about what to do next. Here’s the plan:
1. Improve conversion rate
2. Create...
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Public roadmap 🗺️
If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack designed to help web developers significantly speed up their project development time. I post daily updates on my journey and progress.
Alright, folks! Here’s what got done today:
- I’ve engaged with my customers, asked how their experience had been, and asked for feedback
- Added upvotes to the roadmap
-...
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Product Hunt aftermath 🔥
If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack designed to help web developers significantly speed up their project development time. I post daily updates on my journey and progress.
Ok, so today is the day after launching LaunchFast on Product Hunt.
I don’t have anything to compare this launch against, to know how successful it was, so I’m taking it as...
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Already working on payment integration for you guys ♥️
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LaunchFast is launching today 🚀
If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack designed to help web developers significantly speed up their project development time. I post daily updates on my journey and progress.
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Alright, folks, today’s a short one.
Here’s what’s happening today:
1. Posted LaunchFast on multiple communities to promote the Product Hunt’s launch
2. Asked all my...
One command to a fully featured, secure, production-ready app with Remix, SQLite, shadcn/ui, auth, email, Stripe, OpenAI, Playwright, Sentry, analytics, and 30 more features than ShipFast.
LaunchFast
One command to a full featured, secure, production-ready app
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Hey Product Hunt! 🎉
I'm André, the founder of LaunchFast 👋
Imagine being able to run one command and, a few minutes later, having a fully featured, secure, production-ready app online, with Remix, SQLite, shadcn/ui, auth, email, Stripe, OpenAI, Playwright, Sentry, analytics, and 23 other features ready for you to hit the ground running building you app.
Zero distractions, zero time spent...
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Here's the NPM package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/la...
Here's the repo: https://github.com/andrecasal/np...
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Building an NPM package
If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack designed to help web developers significantly speed up their project development time. I post daily updates on my journey and progress.
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Today I worked to improve the “npx -y launchfast” command. Here’s what got done:
1. Improved text colors
2. Added TS support
3. Added a stepper
4....
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Amazing, got as good a score as GitHub for my project 🔥
Keep up the amazing work!
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The Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule 📏
I spent over 7 hours today watching video footage from test drives conducted by developers using my product. Interestingly, I observed that 90% of the feedback was generated during the first two test drives.
The subsequent test drives identified the same issues repeatedly.
Here, we see the Pareto Principle in action, where 80% of results came from just 20% of the efforts.
To benefit from...
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Back to engineering ♥️
If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack that helps web developers build in a weekend what it would take them 2 months. I post daily updates on my progress from 0€ to 10k€ by the end of 2024.
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Alright, here’s what got done yesterday:
1. Improved the Product Hunt teaser page
2. Tried improving upon Zaid’s logo
3. Went through 2...
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What 12 hours straight of marketing can do
Alright, so today… I woke up at 4h30 and worked until 19h00 with only a 30-minute break for lunch. 12 of those hours were spent on marketing, and 2 hours spent trying to make a logo.
Let’s dive in and see the results.
## 12 hours of marketing
Ok, so how the hell does one do 12 hours of marketing?
Here’s how:
1. Use GummySearch to look for keywords related to launchfast on Reddit
2. Use 𝕏 Pro...
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Getting better at 𝕏
If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack that helps web developers build in a weekend what it would take them 2 months. I post daily updates on my progress from 0€ to 10k€ by the end of 2024.
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Alright my friends, here was yesterday’s plan:
1. Apply SEO tags to the directory listing
2. Implement the rest of the tips from Zaid,...