If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack that helps web developers build in a weekend that it would take them 2 months. I post daily updates on my progress from 0€ to 10k€ by the end of 2024.
Alright, I’ve finally gotten to the stage of preparing my Product Hunt launch.
Here’s what got done today:
Learned how to use senja.io to obtain testimonials
Asked the devs I showed LaunchFast to, to leave a testimonial
Read the entire first100users.com and made a todo list based on it
Created the Product Hunt prelaunch page
Learned how to use senja.io to obtain testimonials
Before today I did not know about senja.io. They make it really easy to ask for feedback (just share a link) and to show those testimonials on your website (just inject a script and an HTML tag). Then, they give you this nice dashboard where you can approve, reject or delete testimonials.
They also allow you to manually import testimonials from 34 different websites and social media networks, including 𝕏, Product Hunt, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and many more. Like when someone says something nice about your product or service on 𝕏, you can just copy that post’s URL and import it into your testimonial wall. The cards are also well designed. And it’s free. I’m honestly surprised I didn’t knew about this before. It’s a great product!
Asked the devs I showed LaunchFast to, to leave a testimonial
I’ve got 2 testimonials at the moment, but all devs said they would leave a review, so hopefully I’ll get around 8 🙏 After I do another improvement iteration on the product, I’ll continue to invite developers to try LaunchFast out. But this time I will look for developers building something right now, so they can test LaunchFast in a real-world scenario.
Read the entire first100users.com and made a todo list based on it
first100users.com has a little over 100 tips for getting your first 100 users. I’ve made a list with all of the tips and strategies they share and categorized them as content creation, cold outreach, and helping people out.
Content created I will either way, because I need to create the documentation for the product.
Cold outreach I might do after the product launches on Product Hunt.
Helping people out I try to do every single day. Just because I like it.
Created the Product Hunt prelaunch page
I’ve read 3 articles on how to successfully launch a product on Product Hunt. The best article is the one from Product Hunt themselves. But to be frank, there’s not much to it, it’s just common sense:
Create a pre-launch page with good copy, images, and genuine first comment
Don’t buy upvotes
Promote your pre-launch page. People can hit the “notify me” button to upvote you when you launch
Be nice to people, engage in conversations and be helpful
I’d love to show you my pre-launch teaser page, but unfortunately it’s still awaiting moderation from the Product Hunt team.
Today’s wins
Today I’ve learned you can quickly make a GIF using screenshots and ezgif.com. I made one to show how LaunchFast works for Product Hunt’s teaser page 🔥
Today Elon Musk liked one of my posts ♥️
Can you tell I’m a fan? 😄
Today’s experiment
Ok, so I wanted to be notified whenever a big tech account would post something so I could reply quickly and get seen by my peers. If I enabled notifications for everyone, I’d be notified every 3 seconds, making it impossible to work productively. This meant disabling notifications for a lot of people I care about on 𝕏.
I can still find them all in “Following”, but it forces me to scroll and actively search for them. Not receiving those notifications makes it considerably harder to know what my friends are doing.
That’s why yesterday and today I did not engage as much as I use to.
I think I’ll reenable notifications for all my friends, but, because there’s so many notifications, I’ll work in sprints of be social → focused execution → be social → focused execution. I can do this by enabling Focus Mode on macOS.
Next steps
Keep looking for devs and testimonials
Keep helping people on 𝕏
Start registering LaunchFast on a list of 400+ websites
Promote the Product Hunt teaser page
Create a support group for the launch
That’s it for today folks. Profit day is coming 🙌😄💰