Try something beyond Product Hunt (and Twitter)
Because Product Hunt is often a vanity metric
Oh thank god I got #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt → https://dub.sh/autorepurpose-ph
I still couldn’t believe it that I got the badge! Such a great social proof to have!
Then what now…?
Traffic has died down
Two weeks later, traffic to AutoRepurpose has died down.
OK this is a typical thing to happen when you launch your app on PH.
What about MRR?
It’s actually $0…dang.
I think I need to try more things. PH launch was just one of them.
What I learned from my PH launch is:
PH launch is for a good backlink and a badge
PH users may not be your target segments
Be a mad scientist
I didn’t know what to do next, so I asked Nico for advice.
As a result he took a 27-minute video for me! He just made my day.
I needed to first validate whether my idea is something people’d actually pay for.
So Nico suggested I switch from a subscription model to a one-time payment model to lower the friction for users to pay.
If users won't even pay for a one-time purchase, who's going to pay for a subscription?
I made the change 3 days ago and I finally got a sweet Stripe notification last night.
Ok at least a person paid money for AutoRepurpose.
So now I need to try different channels.
As a start I created the first TikTok video for AutoRepurpose (Thanks Amit for pushing me to do this)
I know this is far from the perfect one. Lmk if you have feedback 🙏
Let’s check some metrics
For the last 7 days: the number of unique visitors: 439
the number of new users: 60
So the conversion rate ≈ 13.7% if I’m not wrong.
I need to get higher conversion rate and then more traffic I guess…?
Dan recorded 3 great videos about getting good business ideas, differentiating your product and getting high-quality traffic daily.
I think his videos are gold. Check them out if you’re curious.
My smol YT channel is kinda growing faster than I expected → https://www.youtube.com/@_taishi
I started to upload videos again since I joined delulu club by Maricris.
I was interested in creating content but didn't have much time, so I decided to make videos in the Study with Me genre, which I had done a bit before.
This basically involves filming myself working, so there's no need to think about a script. The only effort required is video editing.
Thanks to many people viewing my profile during the Product Hunt launch, my YouTube channel also grew at the same time.
The day before the PH launch: 151 subs
Right now: 196 subs
I haven't posted any new videos in the meantime. Clearly, this growth is thanks to PH.
Check out the latest Study with me and a cat vid 🐈⬛ :
This look behind the hype curtain is very cool and much appreciated.