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I was pretty embarrassed to announce my new project, @LinkfulApp.
I've been working on building a successful startup for 9 months, and all I have to show for that is 2 failed ideas.
But that's the whole point of #buildinpublic — to share the success and the failures.
I've been working on building a successful startup for 9 months, and all I have to show for that is 2 failed ideas.
But that's the whole point of #buildinpublic — to share the success and the failures.
Day 36 of #buildinpublic
I've made the decision to rewrite my journaling app @soli_team from Swift (iOS only) to @reactnative with Expo to make it available on iOS, web, and Android.
Will it be worth it?
Stay tuned 🙃
I've made the decision to rewrite my journaling app @soli_team from Swift (iOS only) to @reactnative with Expo to make it available on iOS, web, and Android.
Will it be worth it?
Stay tuned 🙃
Day 35 of #buildinpublic
Finally got my journaling app @soli_team ready to run facebook ads.
Reading through the facebook sdk to get everything set up was a pain, but finally done.
Ads go live tonight. Budget is $20/day for a week.
Excited to share the results!
Finally got my journaling app @soli_team ready to run facebook ads.
Reading through the facebook sdk to get everything set up was a pain, but finally done.
Ads go live tonight. Budget is $20/day for a week.
Excited to share the results!
Day 34 of #buildinpublic
I made the decision to try running paid ads with FB/IG ads as my first campaign.
I spent the past day setting up my app @soli_team with the facebook sdk, and honestly it was a headache lol.
Hoping to get some ads up and running later this week.
I made the decision to try running paid ads with FB/IG ads as my first campaign.
I spent the past day setting up my app @soli_team with the facebook sdk, and honestly it was a headache lol.
Hoping to get some ads up and running later this week.
Day 33 of #buildinpublic
Did more street interviews to market my audio journaling app @soli_team.
6 interviews later I realized the audio was messed up.
Lesson learned: always double check the audio is working, and always film with a deadcat when recording outside.
Did more street interviews to market my audio journaling app @soli_team.
6 interviews later I realized the audio was messed up.
Lesson learned: always double check the audio is working, and always film with a deadcat when recording outside.
Day 32 of #buildinpublic.
Just crossed $100 revenue for @soli_team , an audio journaling app that I built.
Livestreaming on TikTok has been a great way for me to sell the product to people.
This might be my sales strategy for now. Not scalable, but effective.
Just crossed $100 revenue for @soli_team , an audio journaling app that I built.
Livestreaming on TikTok has been a great way for me to sell the product to people.
This might be my sales strategy for now. Not scalable, but effective.
Day 32 of #buildinpublic and lately I've been debating whether to stop actively working on @soli_team and to pivot to a new product.
DAU has dropped to ~15 users, ~5 total paying users, and beginning to doubt myself whether it really solves a problem or not.
DAU has dropped to ~15 users, ~5 total paying users, and beginning to doubt myself whether it really solves a problem or not.
Day 30 of #buildinpublic.
With the experience I have growing a following of 160,000 followers on TikTok, I posted 3 organic marketing videos on TikTok and Instagram Reels, and here's how they performed.
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With the experience I have growing a following of 160,000 followers on TikTok, I posted 3 organic marketing videos on TikTok and Instagram Reels, and here's how they performed.
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Day 29 of #buildinpublic
Posted my new social media content for my audio journaling app @soli_team.
I made brand new social media accounts on TikTok/Instagram rather than using my own (which has ~160,000 followers).
Here are the results (very interesting and surprising) ⬇️
Posted my new social media content for my audio journaling app @soli_team.
I made brand new social media accounts on TikTok/Instagram rather than using my own (which has ~160,000 followers).
Here are the results (very interesting and surprising) ⬇️
Day 28 of #buildinpublic.
Spent all day doing street interviews and editing content for the week.
My social media idea is doing street interviews where I asked people what they're thankful for, what they think is beautiful, and what annoyed them today.
First post is tomorrow!
Spent all day doing street interviews and editing content for the week.
My social media idea is doing street interviews where I asked people what they're thankful for, what they think is beautiful, and what annoyed them today.
First post is tomorrow!
Day 27 of #buildinpublic
Spent most of the day brainstorming organic content ideas to grow @soli_team.
I have an exciting idea and I can’t wait to film and post it.
My big bet is that the Soli TikTok/IG page will be bigger than my personal page by the end of this year.
Spent most of the day brainstorming organic content ideas to grow @soli_team.
I have an exciting idea and I can’t wait to film and post it.
My big bet is that the Soli TikTok/IG page will be bigger than my personal page by the end of this year.
Day 26 of #buildinpublic
Just went live on TikTok to talk about my app @soli_team, and I generated 3 new sales.
Potential to try out this live selling more — it has potential to be a big acquisition funnel.
End of day stats: 6 subscriptions, $14 MRR, $69 ARR
Just went live on TikTok to talk about my app @soli_team, and I generated 3 new sales.
Potential to try out this live selling more — it has potential to be a big acquisition funnel.
End of day stats: 6 subscriptions, $14 MRR, $69 ARR
Day 25 of #buildinpublic
Worked on setting up my landing page/blog via @webflow
Plan to write blog posts about the benefits of journaling/wellness topics to generate some organic SEO.
Planning to run some Google Ads campaigns as well, stay tuned 👀
getsoli.app
Worked on setting up my landing page/blog via @webflow
Plan to write blog posts about the benefits of journaling/wellness topics to generate some organic SEO.
Planning to run some Google Ads campaigns as well, stay tuned 👀
getsoli.app
Day 24 of #buildinpublic
Been heads down getting this final feature done where I transcribe the audio recordings to text.
Submitting the build to the App Store tonight and then I’m working on getting 50 paying users by October 1st. 🚀
Been heads down getting this final feature done where I transcribe the audio recordings to text.
Submitting the build to the App Store tonight and then I’m working on getting 50 paying users by October 1st. 🚀
Day 23 of #buildinpublic
Been pretty heads down finishing up the speech to text transcription feature for my audio journaling app @soli_team
Really anxious to finish it soon so I can start going hard on growth/marketing efforts. Feel like I'm going to learn a lot from it!
Been pretty heads down finishing up the speech to text transcription feature for my audio journaling app @soli_team
Really anxious to finish it soon so I can start going hard on growth/marketing efforts. Feel like I'm going to learn a lot from it!
Day 22 of #buildinpublic
Worked on adding a speech-to-text transcription string in @soli_team.
Close to wrapping up, but I want to QA it a bit more to make sure it is bug free.
Once this feature is done, I won't be building any new features until I get 50 paying users.
Worked on adding a speech-to-text transcription string in @soli_team.
Close to wrapping up, but I want to QA it a bit more to make sure it is bug free.
Once this feature is done, I won't be building any new features until I get 50 paying users.
Day 21 of #buildinpublic
It hurts seeing a steep drop off in DAU, but that initial spike was from my launch, so drop off is expected.
This is part of the process, and I just have to double down on growth and engineering the best experience for the users who keep coming back.
It hurts seeing a steep drop off in DAU, but that initial spike was from my launch, so drop off is expected.
This is part of the process, and I just have to double down on growth and engineering the best experience for the users who keep coming back.
Day 20 of #buildinpublic
Worked on this onboarding screen for new users.
Spent more time in Canva making the screens than actuallly coding it 😅
Worked on this onboarding screen for new users.
Spent more time in Canva making the screens than actuallly coding it 😅
Sometimes I go to Twitter to distract myself and then I see everyone else posting their progress about #buildinpublic and that motivates me to get back to work pretty quickly lol.
Anybody else feel this? 😅
Anybody else feel this? 😅
Day 19 of #BuildInPublic
Spent all day editing a Youtube video to get some more top funnel recognition for Soli.
Then, I found a bug in the latest release so now I'm debugging it.
Never a boring moment 😅
Spent all day editing a Youtube video to get some more top funnel recognition for Soli.
Then, I found a bug in the latest release so now I'm debugging it.
Never a boring moment 😅
