Weekly growth notes - what have you been doing this past week?

Some things I've been doing from an IH perspective on top of standard day to day moderating and posting of discussions...

I'm having some fun with Twitter:

• trying to connect it better with the forum/community aspect of IH
• sharing interesting posts and milestones with screenshots attached
• posting questions to encourage people to comment
• sharing quotes of the images that appear on loading IH website
• I enjoyed the 'Write a sad indie hacker story in 3 words' responses, I will have to follow it up with a happy version 😊

I post a lot of what is posted on Twitter to LinkedIn:

• got our first post with a decent amount of likes, I think this is largely down to the person in it sharing it to their network (she was tagged in)
• I tag people in where possible
• I send connection requests to said people too

I've cleaned up a lot of spam over the past few months, my next step is to start becoming a bit more strict in what people post.

I am starting to connect and communicate with others about the things I'm working on. I've gotten quite a few sign ups, but more importantly I've been getting some much needed feedback. And in some cases, I've started to build some meaningful relationships that are becoming quite fruitful.

I love working and interacting with others, even when I have to hear the truth about things I don't want to hear.

I have made progress on the implementation of Testerbot, but now I'm splitting my time to focus a bit on getting initial traction:

• Created a Twitter @ https://twitter.com/testerbotio
• Working on a plan to build a Landing Page. Exploring options and possibly looking for design help.
• Planning to start collecting signups
• Thinking about targeted ads

Hoping to release a beta version in the next 4 weeks.

Project: deprocrastination.co

Current growth efforts:

• tweeting
• posting daily goals through ProductHunt Makers feature
• sending email to all users 1x week with new features (benefits)
• working on retention (simplifying navigation, fixing bugs)
• sending emails asking for feedback
• set up G Suite last week and shipped Friend invitations feature (a step towards inherent virality)

I've been emailing my users, asking them how their progress towards their goals is going and how I can help. In the short term, this doesn't lead to much growth, but it sure helps in the long run.

On commitcheck.com I've been monitoring installs / uninstalls from the GitHub Marketplace and emailing those people. I want to help new users onboard smoothly and understand why people are uninstalling so I can improve the product.

I've also been building a new product which I hope to release soon :)