We shipped 3 products in 3 months and got $10K+ in revenue. 10 tips to ship faster 🚀
Sveta Bay
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Here are 10 dead-simple rules to launching your products faster 🏎
All tips are used with our product - https://www.makerbox.club/
1. You don't need a logo to launch. Just make a gradient box or a text logo in Figma.
2. Don't waste months in user research. Limit it to 20 interviews and one market research.
3. Don't pitch investors with an idea. Instead, build a prototype faster.
4. Don't pivot your product every week. Pick a hypothesis and stick to it.
5. Don't build features that will be used by less than 20% of users.
6. Commit the launch date on social media: Twitter, Linkedin, Indie Hackers, and Product Hunt.
7. Don't waste time outreaching media or influencers to promote your product. No one cares until you get some real traction.
8. Start selling early bird offers (without the product) to commit before the customers.
9. Stop doing endless meetings to "align" with your team.
10. Use no-code tools to build a landing page until you've validated your value proposition.
The sooner customers will see your product the better 😊
Focus on delivering an outstanding MVP, not a spectacular footer.
By the way, today we're live with our 3rd product - MakerBox Roasting 💎
We'd love to receive your feedback! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/makerbox-roasting
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Gaurav Goyal@gauravgoyal_gg
Awesome tips. key is to launch quickly. Somethings will work, some will not. So rather test fast with MVP :)
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Love this, especially all the moments where you're committing to delivery publicly and to those who have signed up. Nothing forces imperfection like an agressive deadline.
@brenna_donoghue absolutely agree! Social commitment is the best motivation!
Great tips here. I'd say build an audience too. Launching with an audience may even be more powerful :)
@dhruv_bhatia Yeah, 100% truth! It's always great to have support!
Hey! Nice tips! :)
I have a question about it:
What stage do you use to validate your idea with an audience?
1 - Before starting developing your product/service?
2 - Along the way you're developing it?
3 - During your mvp presentation (near from launching)?
@alejandro_mascort_colomer good question, Alejandro!
We have a small validation during competitor analysis before starting to develop a product. If there're products on the market and people are ready to pay money for it, then it has a right to exist.
The main validation comes from beta-testers / early-bird launch (Along the way you're developing the product)
@alejandro_mascort_colomer Yeah, great summary. Straight to the point!
very useful tips, It's better to launch and hope for the best.
@software_guy yeah, absolutely!
Launch -> get feedback -> improve
That is awesome. Congratulations on the product launches and your 3rd launch.
@chuan_tang thank you, Chuan!
Great tips! Agree with all statements)
@vitaligisko thanks, Vitali!
You hit that right on the money.
@david_tedaldi1 yeah, they're like "first things first!"
It's so hard to get over the concept of a very polished MVP. Thinking that I could use just a gradient box as a logo or no-code page builder for a landing page is terrifying... ly on point. Don't waste your time on bullshit. Validate, then build, then scale.
Wow, Nice tips...
I want to ask a question
At which stage do you use to validate your idea with an audience?
what product you imported
@raul_silverstone Thank you! Happy to share 😊
I can totally relate to #9, #10.
Be cautious of team that requires endless meeting, may be they are not a fit for the startup.
@ashrahman Yeah, 90% of meeting are unproductive and could be a message
Awesome tips. Thanks for sharing this much useful information
@shaur_ul_asar thank! Happy to share 😊
Hey Sveta,
Can you please shed more light on validating the value proposition bit?
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Any tips about how to reach out to potential customers? I'm in the validation stage and this has been pretty tough for me. Not sure where to even start, also is there anything you'd add/remove from my product's landing page? https://www.kicki.dev/
Thanks for sharing this is great!