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Its amazing! thanks for sharing. Can you please tell from where you are getting the users? How you got your first users and what you are doing for marketing? T

Its amazing! thanks for sharing. Can you please tell from where you are getting the users? How you got your first users and what you are doing for marketing? Thanks a lot.

makeee 6y ago
My first batch of alpha testers came from a single Twitter reply [0] that got retweeted by a prominent person in the React community. It certainly helped that I had an okay Twitter following at the time (I think around 1k), but it doesn't need to be huge. You just need the right person to retweet you. That was enough to iterate on until I had an MVP. Then my Show HN [1] sent like 15k visitors in a day and that led to a ton of usage. I think something like 4k projects were created that day. I wasn't yet charging at the point, but probably for the best, since high usage meant a lot of feedback. A few months later I launched on Product Hunt and that went well [2]. Beyond that, just improving the product every day, sharing my progress on Twitter, and trying really hard to turn every new feature into an exciting launch event. I also started a React hooks blog [3] that sends me a handful of customers every month. I could probably do a better job of promoting Divjoy on there. Haven't delved into SEO (barely rank for anything), content marketing, paid advertising, etc, so it's still very much a learning process for me. [0] https://twitter.com/gabe_ragland/status/1108875975494795265 https://twitter.com/gabe_ragland/status/1108875975494795265 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688044 [2] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/divjoy-4 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/divjoy-4 [3] https://usehooks.com https://usehooks.com
- daemon001 6y ago
  How do you get visitors to the React Hook blog when you're not investing in SEO. Really curious.
  - makeee 6y ago
    The blog ranks really well without any special effort, but for Divjoy I haven't put in the work of setting up extra landing pages to rank for different topics. For example, I'd like to have a page like divjoy.com/nextjs+stripe that emphasizes that stack combination.

Its amazing! thanks for sharing. Can you please tell from where you are getting the users? How you got your first users and what you are doing for marketing? Thanks a lot.

makeee 6y ago

My first batch of alpha testers came from a single Twitter reply [0] that got retweeted by a prominent person in the React community. It certainly helped that I had an okay Twitter following at the time (I think around 1k), but it doesn't need to be huge. You just need the right person to retweet you. That was enough to iterate on until I had an MVP. Then my Show HN [1] sent like 15k visitors in a day and that led to a ton of usage. I think something like 4k projects were created that day. I wasn't yet charging at the point, but probably for the best, since high usage meant a lot of feedback. A few months later I launched on Product Hunt and that went well [2]. Beyond that, just improving the product every day, sharing my progress on Twitter, and trying really hard to turn every new feature into an exciting launch event. I also started a React hooks blog [3] that sends me a handful of customers every month. I could probably do a better job of promoting Divjoy on there. Haven't delved into SEO (barely rank for anything), content marketing, paid advertising, etc, so it's still very much a learning process for me. [0] https://twitter.com/gabe_ragland/status/1108875975494795265 https://twitter.com/gabe_ragland/status/1108875975494795265 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688044 [2] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/divjoy-4 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/divjoy-4 [3] https://usehooks.com https://usehooks.com

daemon001 6y ago
How do you get visitors to the React Hook blog when you're not investing in SEO. Really curious.
- makeee 6y ago
  The blog ranks really well without any special effort, but for Divjoy I haven't put in the work of setting up extra landing pages to rank for different topics. For example, I'd like to have a page like divjoy.com/nextjs+stripe that emphasizes that stack combination.