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I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by rdrd »

Kiro wrote: post #82
rdrd wrote: post #24

As a solo/indie dev who's currently early in building a product, I've been keeping a journal of "ideas" for content in a txt file in the codebase as I hate context switching and want to build this up before I get to it. Here's what I've done: - At the top of the file I've listed my audience, 3 personas - My content has to be useful to one of those - If I see an interesting post/take on social media I hold the link an…

> many times people/community rally around you But most of the times not a single person cares about you or your product.

True. 99% won't care, but that shouldn't hold you back. You get outsized returns from even a handful of people caring - feedback, amplification, motivation, moral support etc.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by girdi »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #10
jondwillis wrote: post #9

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“Organic” The post screenshots in those links are… uh.. hey I look forward to all of the free time everyone will have to do more productive things than “organically” shill for attention on behalf of commercial interests.

It's just an industry term with a particular meaning. You don't need to rage at me about people getting paid for doing ad work because you don't like the jargon and don't like marketing. People who do UGC work get paid enough to not have to work full-time if they don't want to, giving them more time for other things in life than most jobs. Typical jobs care more about exclusivity over your entire working day than the…

>It's just an industry term with a particular meaning. You don't need to rage at me about people getting paid for doing ad work because you don't like the jargon and don't like marketing.

Others are raging about your use of the (very basic) term because it's the inverse of industry jargon. Putting it bluntly: that word you're using - organic - it doesn't mean what you think it means.

There's no elitism here, just more experienced people trying to tell you that you're making a fool of yourself.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by upmostly »

jasfi wrote: post #88
upmostly wrote: post #84

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Right now we're totally bootstrapped so it's a combination of: - Davinci Resolve (free) - Epidemic Sound (for music and sound) - ClearAudio.ai for VO processing I then give myself the whole week to produce the video and honestly that has increased the quality by 10x. I'm not rushing it and can properly spend 2 days putting the video clips together, and another day on just the voice over alone.

Thanks, it looks professionally done.

Wow, that's a really nice thing to say. I personally don't think so but that means a huge amount to hear. Thank you. One thing I did before jumping into making the video was to look, like really look at other YouTuber's videos. Kind of what I assume the author of the original article did. Look at how other successful people are doing something and copy as much of the execution as possible.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by gitmagic »

johannesberlin wrote: post #7

I’m surprised the owner of Lagree didn’t sue you for the name of the app, he’s notorious for that. I also recommend hiring smaller creators, they can be amazing if it’s the right person

Looks like he renamed it to "4 Counts | Wrist Tempo", but the screenshots are still using "Lagree Buddy".

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by Levitating »

kristianp wrote: post #58

They create a fake story about a new feature to promote the app. And then they work out how to create fake text messages. I don't like the approach they used. Get real users to provide a real testimonials instead.

This is the status quo. Half of Instagram is just astroturfing.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by rdrd »

upmostly wrote: post #85
swyx wrote: post #55

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TLDW - whats your one sentence pitch for your product?

A new kind of database workbench for developers/founders/teams for: - managing your database - creating beautiful dashboards quickly - writing, running and sharing queries (think postman but for db) - visually building workflows to export and manipulate your database (so underrated) - eventually building apps directly on to your database (think retool but a desktop app) It's an all in one, modern way to interact with…

Just watched your video, really love the style and openness.

My only suggestion is niche it down a bit. The SQL tutorial guides and features sound great, but the functional list feels a bit like a laundry list. Even here you describe it as a tool for "developers/founders/teams".

Try targeting a specific domain, tech stack, database type, or developer segment (e.g., large B2B teams, small B2B teams, indie devs, or funded startup founders) to stand out. If you pick a clear niche, you can build a stronger SEO strategy around long tail keywords and tailor both the product and the messaging and work out what order to build out features. Even if long term you plan on wanting it to be a tool for all databases, segments etc.

It's much easier to produce content with this in mind, e.g. if you were targetting getting the most out of Postgres you could easily produce a bunch of content for PostgreSQL 18 which formally came out of beta a few weeks ago and has native support for UUIDv7 etc.

Fwiw I’m doing a ton with SQLite atm as a solo dev. If your landing page had said "THE VERY BEST TOOL FOR SQLITE MANAGEMENT TO HELP SOLO DEVS AND SMALL TEAMS MAXIMIZE SQLITE PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY" there’s a good chance I would have signed up for updates but atm it felt a little generic, some of the features I might use, some I definitely would not.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by swyx »

upmostly wrote: post #85
swyx wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TLDW - whats your one sentence pitch for your product?

A new kind of database workbench for developers/founders/teams for: - managing your database - creating beautiful dashboards quickly - writing, running and sharing queries (think postman but for db) - visually building workflows to export and manipulate your database (so underrated) - eventually building apps directly on to your database (think retool but a desktop app) It's an all in one, modern way to interact with…

well done.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by throwaway290 »

rdrd wrote: post #24

As a solo/indie dev who's currently early in building a product, I've been keeping a journal of "ideas" for content in a txt file in the codebase as I hate context switching and want to build this up before I get to it. Here's what I've done: - At the top of the file I've listed my audience, 3 personas - My content has to be useful to one of those - If I see an interesting post/take on social media I hold the link an…

How much feedback people give you on your stuff matches your 3 personas?

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by riehwvfbk »

rdrd wrote: post #83
AuthAuth wrote: post #73

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>"You escape competition through authenticity." - @naval Except none of this is authentic. Its just another form of marketing and it should be illegal to go around spamming posts advertising a product. Or the accounts should be marked as sponsored or promotion accounts so they can be filtered out accordingly.

> Its just another form of marketing and it should be illegal to go around spamming posts advertising a product I think this is the dogma that holds a lot of devs back, the belief that sharing your work, the product, the thought process, the journey, the mistakes, the wins etc is “spammy”. Would save your rhetoric for those who actually spam - ai slop generators, bots, link farmers, paid shillers etc. Not indie devs…

Yes, by all means, build and promote your product.

Planning out interactions according to 3 fake personas is still fake though. Not that I have any better ideas, we all have to engage with this nonsense and waste our lives producing it. It would be nice to somehow not have to.

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