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can you share you'r tech stack , which hosting do you use and what setup you use there . i guess with your expiriance . you replicate your web infrastructure for you microsaas's also i will like to know how much % hosting and thired party API's takes from your MMR Thanks
I use Vue JS, Node JS and golang. I use GCP for hosting. All of this doesn't cost much, around $250/month
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I use Vue JS, Node JS and golang. I use GCP for hosting. All of this doesn't cost much, around $250/month
for each app ? can you share what services do you use there ? do you use credits ? why GCP and not other provider ?
What tools/stacks did you use to make all of those web/apps
I love these stories. Can you ad some details how you started out? Did you have a day job and work in the evenings or how did you get started?
What's your playbook for marketing? This seems to be something you have nailed And how to you make decision on how you split your time between the four?
I usually tweet WIP screenshots and tease whats coming, then I do a public launch on PH, LinkedIn, Facebook groups and Indie Hackers. But always before bulding a microstartup, I have the organic growth channel figured out. For example with https://visalist.io it was SEO, with https://anexplorer.co it's ASO I put all my focus on one when i'm getting started, but after its feature complete then i move on to the next. I…
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That's all good, but even if I create something that solves a problem and publish the site - nobody knows about it. I get 10 visitors per day. From SEO perspective, there is very little chance to rank high as a new site for quite some time (unless there is something I don't know, and you could share). So I guess the question is not how to get the first 1$, but how to get first 1000 of (even free) users
That's correct, you need to figure out where your target users hangout usually like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc and engage with them there. Find their problems and if they are facing the ones that you are solving, tell them about your solution.
If you designed a semester-long microstartup course targeted to fresh CS grads, what does the syllabus look like?
Thats an interesting one which i have never thought about. So it would divide into 4 chapters and go in details for each - Problems to solve - Poduct/Solution - Growth/Marketing - Pricing/Business Model - Audience/Users Then at the end have assingment to build a microstartups based on whats learnt!
What's your playbook for marketing? This seems to be something you have nailed And how to you make decision on how you split your time between the four?
I usually tweet WIP screenshots and tease whats coming, then I do a public launch on PH, LinkedIn, Facebook groups and Indie Hackers. But always before bulding a microstartup, I have the organic growth channel figured out. For example with https://visalist.io it was SEO, with https://anexplorer.co it's ASO I put all my focus on one when i'm getting started, but after its feature complete then i move on to the next. I…