I'm building https://creatorml.com to help YouTuber Creators optimize their titles and thumbnails using the power of machine learning.
I'm currently building in public on both Twitter and YouTube. I've learned that sharing one tweet per day about what I've learned, and making one video per week on YouTube is an incredible way to grow one's audience. The compounding is real.
We are working on LabiOffice - suite of apps to Build, Manage & Grow an eCommerce business. And launching our mobile app on Product Hunt tomorrow for LabiDesk.com - help desk software :)
Our lesson 👉 Plan out iterations thoroughly, don't jump at everything at once, there is always gonna be something to add!
@angezanetti That's only true if you care! :D
Interesting product! Btw, images IMPROVE YOUR WORKFLOW section look really blurry, I thought I'll give some feedback here ;p
I'm building a gym workout app, and I did a soft launch already, but working on improvements. https://athletium.app
I've learned that marketing is much harder than I thought.
@ckpleiser Hi Carsten. It is an app where you can plan and log your gym workouts. It is not the typical fitness app, but for more advanced and more motivated athletes, who like to experiment with their training. People who have the mindset of competitive bodybuilders and powerlifters.
@bjorn_moren I think it's great that you are targeting such a specific niche (bodybuilders & powerlifters).
Marketing and working with a very specific group in my experience is helpful for several reason:
- you'll know fairly quick if you are actually solving a problem for this group (if you talk to them and let them try out your product)
- creating a brand and marketing is a lot easier with a specific target group in mind
- Often the group that you are not specifically targeting (e.g. the casual gym visitor, hobby-lifter) will also listen and be interested
@alex_hw Thanks Alex, you make great points. It was also a way for me to stay more focused in product development. I took the decision after I tested a lot of fitness apps and realized that no one has built an app that I personally would want to use. I saw that there is a space here that no one occupies. There are hundreds generic fitness apps, so I would stand no chance if I made yet another one.
What I'm doing now - as a hobby project.
I am developing with a couple of my colleagues and friends, unique modular ergonomic mechanized workstations for a computer operator, with a built-in computer from professionals to gamers and bloggers. Which allow you to significantly extend the threshold of a comfortable stay at the computer, as well as reduce the risks associated not only with health due to a decrease in physical activity, but also the consequences of an emotional background.
The system for designing an individual mechanized workplace for a computer operator, taking into account all the psychological, anthropological, characteristics of the customer, his biographical experience, as well as positioning his future, is "Anthropological Design".
The system is based on the symbiotic experience of classical architectural design and on the advanced achievements of industrial design in the field of personal and medical furniture construction, on the basic approaches of ancient and medieval schools of space organization, on the latest research by Russian and American scientists in the field of psychotechnologies and anthropology.
Furniture in this system becomes a projection of the owner himself. By creating architectural content and individual physiology together with an anthropological design specialist, the customer creates his inner state in the highest form of potentialization.
All these factors together allow extending the average effective working concentration of the user with our furniture up to 20-40% per day and on average about 25-27% per year. Which will significantly affect his professional implementation in comparison with his colleagues who are doing the same work.
But our main goal is not to overload our client with a lot of work. And vice versa - to free everyone up to 20-30% of the time in a year! After all, the most precious thing for us is the free time of our client. And the philosophy of our product is, first of all, the release of free time for those who work for a long time while at their personal computer.
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oops! i forget - My first lesson, work only through the tools of the Unit-Economics - to get to know the market, communicate with the consumer live and create "cohorts of interests" from this communication, form products according to these interests and then send the conditions for their potential buyers immediately with live communication. Look at their reactions and adjust your USP!
We are working on PropelAuth (https://www.propelauth.com) - an end-to-end auth service which includes first-class support for onboarding your customer's teams.
We used to have a broader focus (you can even see it in our PH launch where we were auth for anyone), but we focused more on a specific segment, B2B customers, and people respond way better on sales calls.
Hey @5harath 👋 - we're building a Twitter game called twiDAQ. Launching on here in a few hours ( https://www.producthunt.com/post... 🚀 ) so I'll be sure to come back and let you know what we learn!!
Hey @5harath - So the learning is going on right now! We're live ☝️ and just about on the homepage (right down at the bottom)... but folks are trying the game which is a great start! I'll let you know as the day goes on what changes. 👍
Originally we started building https://www.decklinks.com/ in public so that we can build together with our early adopters and prioritize the roadmap. Any DeckLinks user can access our private Slack channel and become a part of our team. 🧡
We thought building in public was all about getting feedback on our product and brainstorming together with our users. But there was so much more than just product communications.
We started to actively promote our early adopters and feature their work. We tried to help them with anything we could, from introductions with investors and journalists to pitch decks designs and narrations. We also started inviting our early adopters on our podcast, to help them share their stories.
The biggest lesson I learned, when you build in public => make it about your users, not about your product. Believe in your early adopters, understand what will help them become successful and help them grow.
The best way to grow is to grow together. And if you can share the incredible stories of your users, and promote their offerings and services through your product, that's a win-win for everyone. 🚀🚀
As an example, I'd like to take this opportunity to share a deck link of one of our early adopters:
https://my.decklinks.com/sascha-...
Currently building Notion Invoice, an invoicing solution for business users of Notion. (See https://notioninvoice.com).
Most recent lesson: Your MVP needs fewer features than you think, but your UX needs to be more polished than you think.
Working on a distributed, offline first wiki platform: https://oneplaybook.app. We've learned a lot about SEO while building it. Easier AND harder than you think 😂
I am building a virtual co-working space for bootstrappers (https://wannabe-entrepreneur.com...) and my lesson is that paying members are actually much more active and engaged than on-paying ones
I am building https://thisappwillgiveyouabs.co...
One lesson learned: Make something useful, and make it findable, and they will find it.
I have done minimal marketing and monthly users keeps climbing.
This is not 'build it and they will come'. More like 'make it useful and make it findable via SEO'.
Working on Halo - a tool for early-stage investors and for founders.
We've launched a waitlist for founders and are heavily developing to ensure founders have as much value-added as possible through our product. For founders, Halo is a coaching and development tool, creating clarity by identifying inherent strengths and revealing which habits may derail the success of their startup.
Founders up for the waitlist here: https://t.co/Ekju54GABh
We're working on Kairn, a productivity app to help people and their teams achieve their boldest goals & feel fulfilled (https://kairn.app/).
Biggest lesson 👉 community is key. Building genuine connections and having people to talk about your product is way more powerful than any content you'll create yourself.
Working on Artifactnft.io a keychain with display for NFT's- one lesson learned is managing customers expectations when it comes to timeline because developing a hardware product takes a long time!
Hi. This is Vishakha. I am building Unlearning Labs - It’s a blog today and hopefully in the near future, a community of people who want to learn about learning and apply it in their contexts. As an educator, this blog will help me launch resource pages for educators, parents and learners globally.
One lesson: Take actions every day. It's easy to get into the rut of impostor syndrome and question the process but just get to doing one thing a day.
This is the link - https://unlearninglabs.com/. I am still in the early stages so feedback and suggestions will help a long way :)
Building my 3rd SaaS (https://usermaven.com) in public. It's a product analytics tool for SaaS businesses.
We managed to get 200+ companies on the waiting list. One thing I've learned is that you have to post consistently on Twitter and other channels to keep the community engaged.
Hey Sharath. I'm building https://install.download - here everyone can download the software.
* The most important lesson for me is that the team is the most important thing.