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Happy Friday πŸ˜ƒ

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Starting a startup is like playing Jenga

Just when you think you've built a solid foundation, something falls apart and you're back to square one! 🀣

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222 Features delivered for 🍍Builder
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0 Marketing πŸ˜ƒ
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Real Indie Hacker πŸ˜ƒ

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I am thinking of dropping development and going full-time marketing...

Who is doing it as well? πŸ‘‡πŸ»πŸ˜ƒ

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Today was Analytics day... trying to figure out how to improve conversions and activate users πŸ…

I haven't done it since PH Launch, so a lot of interesting insights.

I will share some conversion tips. In the meantime, let me know what you would like to know πŸ‘‡πŸ»

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Airtable is the best task platform out there!

Jira, GitHub... are too complicated or too simple, without enough flexibility

βž• Editing your items is extremely easy and fast.
βž• Also automation, Views 😍

Please use it for your startup, marketing or anything!

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I am working on an update for our changelog but ended up with a full-blown blog post....

Not sure if I should move it to the blog section and create just a simple changelog update? πŸ€”

How do you handle your feature news?

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I will add complex AI integration with new API and backend infrastructure in under 3 hours...

And then I will spend 1h tweaking the background color for the "new" label πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ ... and still not happy 😬

Do you have the same? πŸ”«

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Building your product is a long journey:

- tones of iterations
- constantly learning from your users
- build πŸ‘‰πŸ» measure πŸ‘‰πŸ» repeat

Last 2 years on the Pineapple Builder repo, and it's not a full picture πŸ‘‡πŸ»

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Interesting trend, as in the past, I would tweet 3x more

Here are some learnings.
- Mainly, I was replying to other people, but with time I got much more focus on my topic and relevant discussions
- You never know which tweet will go "viral" πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
- Don't force it

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I am Not doing marketing, but just replying to my tweets and it takes me 1️⃣ h every day!

And now I should spend another 2h on "engagement" 😰 When do you guys actually work on your startup? πŸ˜„

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Who should you hire first for your startup, Marketer or Sales?

I would go with Marketing unless you are a marketer.

Convince me and chat GPT that we are wrong πŸ‘‡πŸ»

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#Buildinpublic is not a marketing strategy

Especially if you are a small account πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ
My new strategy for my startup is NOT to do marketing in 2023 πŸ˜„

When I code, I get around $1300 a day.

When I do marketing, I get $1 a day πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

I am going to hire someone or partner up for marketing. Who wants to join? πŸ‘‡πŸ»

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Last month I had only 2 great tweets. Got me 5️⃣0️⃣ followers

1. About my 🍍Builder journey and the enormous effort building it
2. About the PH launch

Not surprising, as real talk is most welcome πŸ€” Probably the best strategy for smaller accounts

Twitts bellowπŸ‘‡πŸ»
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Marketing is critical for startup growth. Therefore I am looking for someone to help. We have 2 roles full-time. Added this more starting position role:

- Where do you post job offers?
- Does these requirements make sense?

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Planning your strategy is the key to your startup's growth

It will help you to
1️⃣ Prioritize your activities
2️⃣ Focus on key elements of your business
3️⃣ Plan your resources

Here is my brain dump with some simple prioritization and estimations

Do it every month
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9️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Followers 🀩🀩 Thank you all!

Got ✚4️⃣0️⃣ followers on the PH launch. Maybe another good reason to do it πŸ˜ƒ

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PH Launch Summary for first 16 hours πŸ‘‡πŸ»

- 300 votes πŸš€
- 696 unique visits to website
- 9️⃣0️⃣ new users 😱
- 0 sales (it's will take time to convert) πŸ‘

Tons of feedback and support. Thank you again!

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Key learnings from today's PH launch?!

- 1️⃣ You need some luck πŸ€. Today's results are above the average 🀣
- 2️⃣ Be ready with your 700 DMs list πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ and 5 titans to boost you
- 3️⃣ It's all-day exercises πŸ˜…

It's still great exposure and feedback πŸ˜ƒ

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