What was your first Product 🎁 ? Was it a success 🚀 ? What did it teach you🪞? What came next 🕰 ?
Arun Pariyar
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In light of our product hunt launch today
👉 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/setops
This question is in my mind. Would love to hear what stories you have to share in your journey of becoming a maker. Share with us your experience of launching your first product.
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Michael Andreuzza@michael_andreuzza
Flabbergatsed
Hey Arun.
It was www.colorsandfonts.com
I built it back in 2018 and still going strong after many redesigns, a lot more f traffic.
It has reached me a lot.
For example:
Talk about your project soon as you start working on it, list it everywhere possible, be a pain in the back and ask people if they can list it on their sites.
My biggest source of traffic is "Goo Goo"
Mention it as an alternative, write tutorials on how to use it...
Take care!
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Simply Local - Community Portal
SimplyLocal.app for me... it's been challenging though the product is amazing. But to get regular users is a challenge. Working on marketing now.
Trends Predictions
I just launched my first product here today as well. but it has been working for a few months now. I have focused on improving SEO, I started a blog, it has improved but I still have more to do.
My product is a website in which you can find trends and predictions. I created an artificial intelligence model to predict trending topics. It's like weather forecasting but with trends.
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Great question, Arun. For me, it was RouteGuru, the world's first landmark-based road navigation/ driving direction app.
A success on the creativity front, loved by users and bloggers globally, but a failure on the business front. We couldn't monetize and the then Google Maps India team reverse engineered it and launched it globally from India.
It taught me to get paying customers (soft commitments) first, before creating the product.
What came next was an Enterprise Mobility platform where we extended SAP to Blackberry handsets (this was the year 2010), and deployed it for two large enterprises as paying customers, all within a year!
WorkHub
My first product is Bravo. See it here: https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
I have been working on it for a couple of years and am about to launch it soon on PH. I hope it would be a great success. Just need the support of you guys.
Hi Arun!
I launched my first product back in 1991 when I was 18 yo. It was called "My Teacher" a Windows software to create interactive learning lessons. It was published in some magazines so I think it was a success :)
The software was done using one of the first Visual Basic versions and I learned a lot about programming in general.
Some years ago I picked up the original idea to create Aprendiendo.top (spanish only):
https://aprendiendo.top
Regards.
A hangover prevention supplement. I learned that it's ALL about execution. Ideas are cheap and readily available, but it's the execution that differentiates success.
Indie Developer Toolkit for Notion
I am yet to release my first product here, but I have released game products when I was making games before. Some takeaways I would share is that engagement is the most important part of having a great release. Creating new connections through forums or posts to bring attention to not only yourself but your products, will lead to great results.
Flowace
Cabzo, a taxi booking app was my first product. It failed but it led us to Flowace so it's a huge badge of honor. What the failure taught me and my brother, who's my co-founder -
1. Launch your product quickly. Don't chase perfection.
2. Talk to strangers to get real feedback about your product. Your friends and family members will usually only say good things.
3. Be very close to your consumers, understand their pain points carefully and listen more to what your well wishers have to say.
My first product is a quick defrost product, which defrosts food in 10 minutes and is still in production
https://www.producthunt.com/post...