Not sure how to really use IH
Hey all,
I'm quite new here and trying my best to learn as much from the community.
One question - If i've started a project on my own and launched and wish to talk about it, how do i do that without sounding off like a blatant and obnoxious ad?
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Hey @xaC !
Welcome to IH. I was literally in same position 2 months ago.
What I did so far?
Project feeback:
I liked the design and topic that you focus but I just wanted to see it in action when I visit the site.
Hope you know more in 2 months as well :)
Good luck!
Thank you!!! i'll keep improvin :)
My advice to you would be to try and provide value to people by talking about what you learned throughout your journey, it may be during the product development stage, the launch or even after the launch.
-Tell people about the products you used and what you found helpful.
-Talk about the platform you used for the launch and if it generated users for you.
-Which social media platforms you use to drive traffic to your project, what strategies or campaigns you ran, try to quantify the results and give frequent updates to the community.
Most of all just try and interact with as many people as you can and I'm sure you'll come up with your own ideas soon.
May I know what project you are working on?
All the best mate!
Cheers man, i'll do that right now!
It's a pretty strange journey to be honest. I first was just scrolling on sideprojectors and found a project that caught my eye. So i took a chance and bought it over,
the project is copyscouts.com - an AI writing tool.
Since then I've integrated a few other things like handprint.tech which supports impact projects like reforestation among others so i pledge to planting trees for every subscriber.
The project is built with LAMP and I'm not very technical and only really started self-learning after taking over it. It's been a journey. Only really felt real drive to learn coding this hard after having a deeper sense of ownership.
I'm trying to grow traffic to the sites and conversions by integrating social proof notifications, while also trying to comment on forums, upload my site on multiple listing directories, betapage, appsumo etc. but especially for reddit i seem to keep getting reported by mods because theyre super uptight about self-promo or ad posting.... so thats something i'm not too interested in.
As far as the backend of the project goes, i think what i've done up so far to train my AI-model really stands out from even the biggest competitors like Jasper or Copy.ai because my fine-tune passes plagiarism checkers and AI-detection every single time you generate content.
I've found that the text generations do have some weird punctuation with this custom fine-tune but i think as AI should always be used to complement the writer, that this still is a better option for framing the text for writers to scale with a good quality framework for whatever content type theyre trying to produce.
I offer 9 different content types ranging from copywriting to blog posts to drafting legal docs as well as job descriptions and business plan templates.
It's on a subscription basis and i'm still learning how to re-code the paypal charging to switch between Stripe or have more flexi-tiered plans. I think that's also one of the things thats really hindering my traffic from converting there and then.
I feel that AI tools should be simple and solve the needs of the user in the most basic form. Jasper has really comprehensive functions and that's amazing but I think their tool sells to too many... i'd like to hyper focus on a niche segment and really hone in on it.
Will continue upgrading the site and usability and i'm in the process of building a lot more enhancements to it so stay tuned!!! :)
We use some AI writing tools as well for our content so I know the market for this is huge, the paypal point that you talked about may actually be an issue so you should sort it out as soon as possible, it's not good to lose their interest once they're already on your website.
By the way your explanation is great so you can just keep it up and spend some time on IH I'm sure you'd be able to generate some solid results here like we did for our tool ruttl.
Commenting on posts where someone is complaining about a problem you can help with or asking for a solution similar to your product wouldn't come off as blatant and obnoxious to me (since they are asking for it and you are providing a solution). I have been trying to do this on here as well as on Reddit and event built a social listening tool to help me with this (need to add support for IH 😆). It's definitely a learning process, but you'll get the hang of it eventually!
How long does it take to get approved for posting anything on Indiehackers?
Actually i was only recently approved after maybe a day or so of interacting with other peoples posts and giving my feedback or opinions on what they had to say
If you are interested in marketing strategies and stories,
I curate a database of marketing strategies posted by indie founders over at MarktStash.com
Cheers!
Thanks for this, i'll check it out!!!