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I read this quote from Andrew Wilkinson (co-founder of Tiny Capital): "There are all these cool products that are on Product Hunt. Every day you think "that's
by raunometsa 6y ago
I read this quote from Andrew Wilkinson (co-founder of Tiny Capital):
"There are all these cool products that are on Product Hunt. Every day you think "that's cool". But most of them fizzle."
I know this from my own personal experience and I think this is also true for many other developers like me. We build fun little side projects, launch them on Product Hunt, but let them fizzle afterwards.
"A lot of the time it's started by a developer and the developer doesn't understand how to market and grow something."
And even when some of the developers do have the knowledge how to market and grow something, they're often not interested in it as much as creating something.
... read more from my blog about why I built this: https://saashacks.io/buy-my-side-project https://saashacks.io/buy-my-side-project
I hope you like it!
- sokoloff 6y agoWould you like to sell BuyMySideProject?
- rgoulter 6y agoAnd did you have fun making it?
- raunometsa 6y agoI did, thanks for asking!
- raunometsa 6y agoMaybe!
- hemantv 6y agoThe real question is how you can get good at marketing?
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- krm01 6y agoThis helps to get good at marketing if you’re an engineer: https://phireworks.co/pro https://phireworks.co/pro
- pc86 6y agoWhat is your affiliation with them?
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoApparently, one of showing HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26186864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26186864
- codethief 6y agos/how you can get/how do you find someone who's Personally, I've realized that I hate doing marketing and I enjoy creating things much more.