First "how to" product webinar in the books for whatifi. No major tech stumbles. 34 pre-signups. 10 folks made it to the actual event.

Chalking that up as a small win and back to building.

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Running our first online "how to" webinar. Emailed 1,200 signups and constantly refreshing to see how many folks actually sign up.

Any lessons learned from other startup Founders on what to do (and not to do) when hosting a webinar/demo/how-to session virtually?

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UI/UX - design for the extreme case and work backwards.
Seeing a power user navigate your SaaS at scale can be eye opening. Pokes holes in your smaller scale assumptions.
Much harder to add complexity to a simple design than to simplify a complex design.

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Home stretch on our Product Hunt for whatifi today.

A big thanks to @thisiskp_ for coaching us through today.

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Live on Product Hunt

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Updating our Product Hunt thumbnail and preparing for a long night/morning ahead of me. The first few hours after 12:01PM are the most critical to making a splash and staying on the first page.... coffee will be brewing.

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What is a Product Hunt launch without a demo video?

Spent the past few days editing, filming and re-editing this walkthrough of whatifi and showing how to build "what if" models with our tech.

Launch is Friday.

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3 days to our Product Hunt launch - working on images and content for whatifi for Friday.

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Last week I wrapped up my 25 year stint as a VFX Supervisor. Worked on some of Hollywood's biggest (and lamest) feature film and TV series.

And now... I'm a startup Founder taking my six year old bootstrap tech side hustle and "giving it a go".

Giddy up.

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Gearing up for our launch on Product Hunt next Friday.

Still tweaking the pages but getting there.

Let the shameless promoting begin.

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Anyone have tips on having more success when posting a Show HN thread on Hackernews?

Landed with a pretty resounding thud this morning.

Posted waaaay too early and thread got buried.

What else?

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Sent my first email to my early access signup list in 3 years. AMA.

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Emailing the 1,466 people that signed up for early access for whatifi for the first time... in years.. scary.
Finally ready to publicly launch and expecting a lot of undeliverable emails, unsubscribes and bounces - but let's see what shakes out!

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Hello Product-Market-Fit...
Nice to finally meet you.
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That moment when the CFO of a company with $1.9B in sales last year checks out your platform and you realize that step two of your automated onboarding flow is broken.

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So I am pitching whatifi in front of 1000 people tomorrow night including a few millionaires and a billionaire. Scrambling to prep my two minute pitch. Feedback welcome. #buildinpublic #fpanda #startup #tech

🚀Startup validation hack - Cold Outbound Email

- draft a 3 or 4 step email campaign
- don't ask for sales; ask for feedback
- tweak copy for different market segments
- use an automated outbound service
- measure response and engagement rates

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That moment when you realize that the rewrite will need to be rewritten. #buildinpublic

Figma took four years to launch...
Figma took four years to launch...
Figma took four years to launch........

(looks at watch)

Figma sold for $20B...
Figma sold for $20B...
Figma sold for $20B.......

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Am I crazy to try to learn to code at this late stage of our app? indiehackers.com/post/am-i-craz… via @IndieHackers
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