Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
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Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
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Re: Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
#2This actually looks really good. Congrats on the profit and good luck going forward. Good Article too, (saved for later)
Re: Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
#3Great work! And I must thank you for introducing me to Intercom as well! :)
Re: Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
#4Congratulations on getting it off the ground.
I searched through a few pages of your blog archives looking for your customer acquisition strategy, specifically search and ads. Can you tell us anything about that?
Re: Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
#5Great work! And I must thank you for introducing me to Intercom as well! :)
You're welcome! It's a fantastic service, but they won't let me throw money at them yet :-(
Re: Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
#6Congrats on your launch! Our first month, we had 9 paying customers, so very similar to you. But like the one commenter said, keep posting honest posts!
Re: Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
#7Congratulations on getting it off the ground. I searched through a few pages of your blog archives looking for your customer acquisition strategy, specifically search and ads. Can you tell us anything about that?
Absolutely. So I'm not really running any ads (I did throw away $100 on an ad on clientsfromhell.net and got virtually zero results).
My search strategy follows a lot of what patio11 covers here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/
Write relevant content for your audience (educational content: how they can better their lives or work) and promote where possible. I'll sometimes to go message boards for freelancers, see what questions they're asking, spend some time on a post, and then cycle back to them.
Long term strategy is having a healthy amount of crawlable content that my audience might search for.
Re: Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
#8Congratulations on getting it off the ground. I searched through a few pages of your blog archives looking for your customer acquisition strategy, specifically search and ads. Can you tell us anything about that?
Absolutely. So I'm not really running any ads (I did throw away $100 on an ad on clientsfromhell.net and got virtually zero results). My search strategy follows a lot of what patio11 covers here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/ Write relevant content for your audience (educational content: how they can better their lives or work) and promote where possible. I'll sometimes to go message boards for fre…
(I did throw away $100 on an ad on clientsfromhell.net and got virtually zero results)
My suspicion on this is that since Clients From Hell offers no reason to go to the site itself (no extra commentary, no user comments, etc.) it's easier to just read it from an RSS feed.
Re: Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank
#9Fantastic product.
Just signed up with a throwaway and had a brief play.
It was all really intuitive. No real problems really.
You should also try and show that you aren't just for companies who might have multiple projects on the go. We only have a single product and could see the benefit of something like this as a very rudamentary issue tracker and feature suggestions between the team.
- What kind of a roadmap do you have (features primarily)?
- How long has it taken you so far?
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#10Great post! Nice to see others are looking at the long term plays and building great products. The post was refreshing to read and validates much of what I experienced over the last year building my apps.