This is my first marketing week ever. Here's the plan 📅

⬜ Learn fundamentals of cold email outreach
⬜ Introduce my product on 10 subreddits
⬜ Introduce my product on Indiehacker
⬜ Add Commandine to my Twitter banner

Below is the list of the subreddits 👇

#buildinpublic

What do you think is most valuable for explaining how your product works?

1. An help guide on Notion
2. A series of tiny videos, 2-3 minutes max
3. Both

I'd like to do it for Commandine 🤔, any suggestions?
#buildinpublic

Build in public update 🏗️

Commandine now support light and dark theme for the palette 🎨

+ This feature unlocks theming for the future 🚀

The first theme to create: a Raycast look and feel 😁
#buildinpublic

What's the point when you throw away the MVP implementation and code your product properly?

Yes, I mean including tests 😬
#buildinpublic

In the last 2 weeks, I didn't tweet and engage so much 😕

My stats are very low compared to February 📉

But, I now reached the MVP state for my product, Commandine 🦾

And I'm super excited about it 🕺

Are we in the marketing week already? 😬
#buildinpublic

Yesterday Commandine was integrated for the first time into a product, this happens 👇

1. The doc has a typo on the package's name
2. I published with the wrong env variable, production was unreachable
3. The CSS was missing

Please tell me this is it's fine 😅
#buildinpublic

When you are finally ready to release the dashboard of your product and write to potential customers...

But the Vercel has issues and don't let you deploy... AWESOME 😂
#buildinpublic

What is important for my product in his early days:

- Editor with a real-time preview
- Help guide section
- A simple way to integrate it

What is not important
- Sign up process & Reset password
- Pricing
- Logout button

First the value, then the rest 💎.
#buildinpublic

Build in public update 🏗

I added the Design section to the Commandine editor.

You can now customise the theme and see it in real-time 👀.

Next step: The publishing flow🎈
#buildinpublic

Since Commandine is an embeddable widget, I have to make sure that the CSS doesn't clash with the website where it gets integrated.

For this reason, I started a transition from TailwindCss to styled-components and shadow-dom.

Is so painful 😭
#buildinpublic

Building a product under time constraints can have the benefits to make visible what is truly important for your SaaS ⌛.

You have to be iterative.
You have to focus.
You have to think first, not just coding.

It can be stressful, but it's worth it.

#buildinpublic

Build in public update 🏗️

The login page is done, what do you think?

I'm still not sold on the input text, but who cares, the login flow works 😅

#buildinpublic

After a few busy days, I managed to do the first iteration on the Commandine editor 🤓.

I also managed to add a real-time preview of the palette 🦾

Next step: The login flow

#buildinpublic

Last week I asked for feedback on the landing page of Commandine and I get tons of good points. I want to publicly thank 🙏:

@tomfallowfield
@ChrisSamp1
@ThatMattMorris
@aminaighoud
@__ArshdeepSingh
@ayushtweetshere

Don't build in the dark, do it in public!
#buildinpublic

Oh, I just crossed 500 pageviews on howindiefella.com.

Super 🦾

This week I'm focusing on getting the landing page of Commandine out.

Next week I'll be back to collect stories on How Indiehackers made their first $100 online!

#buildinpublic

Commandine landing page is almost done 🤓.

What's missing:
- add the MVP itself on the landing page 😁
- integrate a waiting list form
- improve the copy

I'm using ConvertKit for collecting emails and CopyAI for the copy, What do you use for those tasks rather?
#buildinpublic

Here's what I'm working on 🤓.

Commandine lets you create command palettes for your apps.

The goal:
🚀 boost your user's productivity
📙 help them discover features
🤝 deliver a handy way to interact with your product

I'll share all the iterations day by day!

#buildinpublic

Yo, a quick announcement:

I'll start building a no-code tool in public 🤓

The goal: Make your customers more productive and improve the discoverability of your product features 🚀

I'm going to set up a minimal landing page in the next few hours 🏎

#buildinpublic #NoCode

Wow, I reached my first 100 followers 🎉!

I know it's a vanity metric, but It's still a joy for micro-accounts like me.

Thanks to all of you 💎.

I'll publish my Twitter overview in a few hours, stay tuned 📻

#buildinpublic

In a few hours, my first month of Twitter used pro-actively will end 🎉 💎.

I'll do a monthly review in the next few days, sharing my insights and showing the most engaging tweets per:

- impression
- likes & reply
- profile clicks

Follow for updates ✌
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