Getting better at 𝕏

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 what it would take them 2 months. I post daily updates on my progress from 0€ to 10k€ by the end of 2024.

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Alright my friends, here was yesterday’s plan:

1. Apply SEO tags to the directory listing

2. Implement the rest of the tips from Zaid, including creating a better logo

3. Extract insights from the 9 recorded test drives with devs and make a list of improvements

4. Implement the improvements on that list, one by one, for a delightful CLI experience

5. Record a video showing off LaunchFast (and posting it EVERYWHERE 😄)

6. Keep looking for people to help on 𝕏, because I love to

And here’s what got done:

1. Got better at 𝕏

2. Applied SEO tags to the directory listing

3. Registered LaunchFast on a few more directories

4. Created LaunchFast’s community

Got better at 𝕏

One of the best ways to grow on 𝕏 is a strategy I like to call audience siphoning. You subscribe to big accounts in your industry and activate all notifications for them. And when they say something, you get in there and give your support, perspective, or opinion. This will get you a lot of followers and impressions.

I wanted to be the first to reply to those big accounts, so I needed to leave notifications on in real-time. Because I subscribe to a lot of people I enjoy watching, I was receiving notifications every 3 seconds, which isn’t conducive to productivity.

So I decided to disable all notifications, except for the big accounts. That was a disaster: not receiving notifications from my friends left me feeling isolated and disconnected.

So, instead, I’ve re-enabled notifications from everyone I want to hear about, and left real-time notifications turned on, so that macOS accumulates them on Notification Center, but when it’s time to focus I enable Focus Mode to prevent me from being interrupted by them.

When I finish a flowmodoro session, I disable Focus Mode and reply to all the posts I find interesting, providing my support, perspective, or opinion :)

Here’s what that looks like:

Applied SEO tags to the directory listing

This is a small thing, but it scales very well as it allows people to find you on Google.

If you’re a marketing wizard 🧙 let me know what I could improve on these 👇

Registered LaunchFast on a few more directories

I’ve found a few more directories I could submit LaunchFast to. If the result is positive, I’ll add them to the launch directories page for your convenience.

If you have ideas on how to make the directory more useful, please reach out.

Created LaunchFast’s community

I’m not entirely sure a community on 𝕏, for a product like LaunchFast, is the right move, but I’ll give it a try because ever since Elon took over, I’m loving 𝕏 more and more ♥️

It’s empty at the moment, but that’s ok. It’s a way for people to get in touch, discuss improvements, tech choices, show off examples, and so on.

Next steps

I’ve got a lot of work ahead of the launch on the 27th of August.

Here’s the game plan:

1. Rebrand LaunchFast as LaunchFastPro to distinguish it from other boilerplates.

2. Create a distinguished logo. Here’s a sneak peek:

   

3. Extract insights from the 9 recorded test drives with devs and make a list of improvements

4. Implement the improvements on that list, one by one, for a delightful CLI experience

5. Record a video of me showing off LaunchFastPro

6. Make the features section easier to consume. I like the way this guy does it:

Images speak louder than words 🔥

That’s it for today folks, I hope you have a wonderful week ♥️