Been told my target market hangs out on Facebook.

So now I rather question myself, what am I doing here on Twitter? 🤦

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Lolz. Strolling around and enjoying the cafes around Mexico City (see random neighborhood below) is what I'm currently doing instead of working on BrainDrip.

Not a single drop of guilt, too. 🤣🤣🤣

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For instance I can find communities of teachers, or side hustlers, but the 3 characteristics don't seem to intersect (at least not online. See for instance age group above).

Where do you go market to your customers then? 🤔

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What tool do #buildinpublic suggest to track user flows through your website?

I loved @fullstory in the past, it recorded videos of every single user and was free.

But now they're not, and I'm too small to pay.

Any free alternatives? Especially with the videos. Need them.

So, I've released the dev version of my app to a small cohort of alpha testers. So exciting! Can't wait for their feedback.

In the meantime, I work on other important pre-release things: adding payments.

I'm looking into LemonSqueezy, PaddleHQ, and Stripe.
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I finally managed to get the Drips landing pages looking nice for mobile! Check it out:

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What keeps you up at night?

I'm up at the moment because there's a guy installing floor tiles at my house and I just realized he installed the framing tiles in one corner wrong this morning. 🤦

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so I don't want to tell my alpha testers too many disclaimers or hints about how the app works.

I guess I'll wait until they find the "bug/features" I already know about and tell me to fix it, lolz. 🤣

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Hmm, my MVP looks great on desktop but mobile is a disaster. At what point do I mobile-optimize?

The app is best used on desktop (you have to type much), but most first time visitors are on mobile ... 🤔

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Yay! We finally have proper mail delivery! Wohoo, we're officially MVP finished!

I'm still on the AWS SES sandbox, but that's ok for now for testing. But now, to add payments and take over the world!

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I've deployed! 🎉🎊🎉🎉🎊🚀🚀🚀

It's just the dev server, but a huge step. Now the platform is accessible from all over the world!

Cool. Now I can get my alpha testers up and running.

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@Iam_LauraD Yeah, but they're very different from #indiehacking #buildinpublic canon. I prefer quiet, soft launches. As soon as I fix this deploy, it goes to 5 friends. Then 10 beta testers. Then official announcement on website. 🤷

For the #indiehackers who are non-US citizens/residents and/or diginomads, how did you set up your corporation?

Did you do Stripe Atlas or did you form a company in your primary country of residence?

Any hints for what works out best?

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Where would I go look for and find a community of lifelong learners?

I'm nterested in connecting with people who like to read news, history, science, obscure hobbies, or want to learn something new every day.

Where (online) would they hang out? 🤔

#buildinpublic #booktwitter

Guys, what do you use for your app's analytics? Just Google search console/insights? Or is there a better tool?

Or roll your own? I don't want to do this last one right now cuz it would take me ages, what should I use in the meantime?

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Subscriptions finished! Manual testing done, still need to add Cypress e2e tests.

But the good news is I can show you a preview of a creator profile where she can easily see how many subscribers she has for her Drips (see below).

Cool, huh?

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Before you build a product, you really need to know your market.

But how do you do this?

I use this framework. Answer every question in this doc, works every single time.

Use it next time before you waste time for no ROI.

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New website. And I'm sitting there hitting F5 every 5 minutes on the analytics to see if someone visits it.

Do you do the same?

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Serious question. What's your strategy for building backlinks? 🤔

I have no clue how to do this and could use some pointers.

#indiehackers #startups #buildinpublic

Who would've thought? I crossed 100 #followers a few days ago with confetti and everything, but now I'm back at 99!

Perfect! 😃

Means I get to celebrate twice! 😇😇😇

Wanna see my confetti gif again? Retweet please!

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