Today's Digest: Without a Goal You Can’t Score

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Your Community Digest

Daily Stand-up group

Without a Goal You Can’t Score

Earlier this week I wrote a blog post about setting long-term goals for our startup. The idea was that by defining the end-goal we could establish a better vision for the company a...

by meadowsm 1 comments

Daily Standup #48 - 25-4-20

Was lost in client work and some self discovery phase. Working on: privacysanta.com Done: 1. Devised an experiment to validate the demand, will be executing it once I have fixed th...

by botvader leave a comment

2020/17/Fri

Yesterday: - Simulation button - refactored and finished for now. - Start working on Filters - didn't start Today: - Start working on filters - starts today QOTD: "Don't stop, get...

by AirwaveTechTony leave a comment

Stand-Up #77 - April 24th, 2020

Stand-Up #77 - April 24th, 2020 Trying to find a good way to display the audiences selections on the countdown cards on the homepage of the app. I'm not very happy with the current...

by jrf leave a comment

Daily Standup 04/24/2020

**DATE: April 24th, 2020** **What will you accomplish by end of April?** - Finish and launch MVP of TinyDev **What did you do yesterday to work towards your goal?** Not much, got s...

by yingw787 leave a comment

Digital Nomads group

What should a digital marketing budget plan and digital marketing price?

Who won't like to calculate the profits in a business and when it becomes questioners to making a profit overrunning a digital marketing campaign than in general prospection become...

by seosiri leave a comment

Growth group

Lessons learned from Betalist launch 🚀

Heya fellow hackers👋 Recently did a Betalist launch. I looked for tips and was not able to find much. So I asked the owner of Betalist (Marc) and looked on the platform myself for...

by Ruben88 12 comments

Ask IH: MetaSurvey - from MVP to first paying customers. Where to go next?

Hi fellows. My name is Stan, I'm a Ui-designer and co-founder of MetaSurvey. We are a banch of fellows from Russia, building a minimalist and simple Tinder-style survey creator — t...

by standiz 4 comments

What I've learned so far earning over $100 with Screenshot Creator

A few months ago, I started Screenshot Creator, which is a web app that helps mobile app developers create beautiful screenshots for the App Store and Google Play. Here's what I've...

by richardchu 4 comments

Failed Product Hunt Launch. Feedback?

I launched List of Investor (https://listofinvestor.com/) 20 days ago on Product Hunt and it was a complete disaster. About 30 unique page views, that's it. I wonder where I went w...

by stephaniejones 4 comments

Just launched on AppSumo 🚀

Early in 2019 I tried to reach out to AppSumo, the most popular daily deals site that's specifically for digitally delivered goods and services, in the hopes of gaining some moment...

by kalemi19 3 comments

Free Feedback For Your Product

I will give you feedback on your product during a 30min video session with you. You can observe me go through your product so that you may discover issues and opportunities for imp...

by LeoNeo 2 comments

Ideas and Validation group

Sell Unused Subscription - Feel free to steal this idea

I was browsing Probstack from @saivas here and I found an interesting problem. I thought I'd share it with this community to see if anyone is interested in building it. Feel free t...

by neu 3 comments

How do I start a Digital Agency?

Hello everyone... First of all, let me tell story behind the question. I have some friends who had good skills and talented in UI/UX Design, Photography, 3d animations, but some of...

by ilhamwibawa 1 comments

Getting doubts about my SaaS idea when talking to others - what are your opinions on Privacy and Data Security?

I'm trying to build an SaaS Product that supports data protection officers to do their job easier. However, when i'm talking to other peoples (people that are not working on data p...

by SnooZ 1 comments

Post your product, answer a few questions, and I'll give you in-depth feedback

As part of my role at Saasify, I've met with literally hundreds of indie hackers, startup founders, and aspiring makers over the past few months to talk about their ideas, understa...

by saasify leave a comment

Oh Email Email! Why are there so many emails? (Email Subscription Manager)

Hi guys, Feeling like your gmail promotion/update tab is getting out of control? We're launching Knowmea (a Email Subscriptions Manager) soon and would love your feedback and thoug...

by holdenlu leave a comment

Transactional Email Automation

While building check-run-reporter.com, I wanted an easy way to send a welcome email, a reminder to try to use the product, a congrats on your first use email, etc. I didn't really...

by ianwremmel leave a comment

Indie Parents group

The Bored Jar

I've always home educated our four children (now aged 7-14) and while they're pretty good at finding things to do, sometimes they just don't know. So several years ago they created...

by gingerkatiesparkles leave a comment

Landing Page Feedback group

Is a 12% Conversion Rate a Failure? (Landingpage made in 2 hours) 🛩

Hey Guys! After your help, (yet again!) My landing page - https://www.spreadtech.online is actually getting some really good traction, but only 12% of users are actually converting...

by LouTromans 9 comments

What does this video tell you?

I am experimenting with telling a visual story for my product. I have created a rough video to test if the visuals and story make sense. There is no audio on purpose. What is your...

by girishw 4 comments

How can we limit the functionality of an iOS MVP to one or two cities?

Hello. We are in the process of developing an iOS app. We want to limit functionality to one or two cities to prove and refine concept before expanding to other cities. Example: A...

by elijahk4 2 comments

Gave a new facelift for my landing page—a personal page builder. What do you think?

Here's the link: https://www.oneprofile.info/ Thanks!

by qabil 2 comments

Iteration 3! JustFitness: The (soon to be) Ultimate Personal Tracker. Feedback Wanted.

Greetings Indie Hackers, I want to start off by thanking everyone who commented and provided feedback on the previous iterations of JustFitness.io. I've applied those suggestions a...

by supremeabraxas 1 comments

lemonads - The future standard of Affiliate Marketing

Hello everyone! The future standard of Affiliate Marketing. Since 2007, lemonads is a major player in affiliate marketing. As a fast-growing group, lemonads has clients all over th...

by lemonads 1 comments

Looking to Partner Up group

If you are an expert in Full-Stack web development, We can launch something really cool.

Hey Guys! I Have Good expertise in Marketing, Growth Hacking, Saas product management, I mostly work for Linkedin Lead generation for clients. I have joined Linkedin since 2013 and...

by neerajnegi 3 comments

I am a Full Stack developer and I am looking for some interesting side project

Hi, I am a Full Stack developer with 3 years of experience and I am looking for some interesting side projects to work on.

by budecevic 3 comments

Looking for a kickass marketer

I'm the founder of Writtio, a blog analytics SaaS. We are nearly finished with development, and are about a month out from launching. We've already had a first round of F&F investm...

by Fgraciolli 2 comments

Two co-founders for 13% - 19% each - Web Developer(Product Person) and Salesperson

A military leader named Hannibal once led his troops to a battle. His troops consisted of Elephants and it is said that he led an army with Elephants to cross Alps mountains. Imagi...

by neu 2 comments

Food Tech lovers

We have an exciting opportunity for a professional to join the team as Marketing Manager to help the onboarding of Users and Partners in the platform. The start-up helps customers...

by PdVP 1 comments

Technical Partner Wanted

Hi, I'm looking for a technical partner to realize my business idea, specifically, a mobile app. There are multiple revenue streams, and the app has e-commerce and social media com...

by elainekh 1 comments

Self Care group

Do people actually want what you're making?

One of the most common failure modes for indie hackers is to build something that people don't want. Sometimes our guesses are wrong. So this is a sanity check! Reply in the commen...

by csallen 148 comments

All these human illustrations on landing pages feel trite

<rant> Not entirely sure what it's called exactly, but I'm talking about those clean-looking faceless human drawings you see in just about every landing page you can imagine. IMHO,...

by egan 10 comments

Virtual Meets group

Virtual Panels?

Is anyone interested in virtual panels? I really want to get together a few experts to speak in various areas of marketing and business. What are people interested in knowing more...

by PublicSpeakingMethod leave a comment

Consults in 27 countries!

So I'm approaching 40 (!!!) consults and talked to hackers from 27 countries. I thought this is so cool, I'd better create a map and hang it on my wall :) If you'd like to set up a...

by JonathanOron leave a comment

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Growth Bite: Prevent churn by letting customers pause their plans

Friday, April 24, 2020

If you only give customers the option to cancel their subscriptions, you might be losing people who would have actually preferred a less final option. Reduce churn by allowing them to put their

Today's Digest: SparkToro: discover the most influential people and websites for your target audience

Thursday, April 23, 2020

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Growth Bite: Scare fewer potential customers away by explaining why you require a credit card for your free trial

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

No one likes to give their credit card information away, especially for a free trial. A simple reassurance about why you need their info will build trust and increase your signups. Potential customers

Today's Digest: People are learning how to build new businesses in lockdown

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

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Growth Bite: Get subscribers by requiring an email address to access certain pieces of content

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Your articles can work harder for you without much effort on your part. If you're already giving away tons of free content, get more subscribers by locking *a few* posts and requiring an email

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