Wix + FastAPI + Marketing (6 days & 595 icebreakers generated)
Final Stats:
35 hours spent
282 website visitors
595 icebreakers generated. 2.1 per page visitor.
So I wanted to connect with more people online and build a social network.
I really like DMs for this but I have not found a way to do DMs that does not feel super inefficient.
I want to have conversations that the other person really wants to have.
So I built a quick tool :
https://www.helloperson.xyz/
My goal was to hit market really quickly and had expectations of:
Create landing page (wix.com) ~ 3 hours
Create backend server (FastAPI on Digital ocean) ~ 5 hours
Server setup + SSL + DNS ~ 2 hours
In reality things always take longer then expected so multiply all those values by 1.5 for what it turned out to be.
Once it was ready it was a super simply system. Enter a link of someones twitter profile and then generate a summary + a great first icebreaker.
The system gets profile information from the social media using a 3rd party API and then creates a summary + icebreaker message.
Marketing:
Contacted 60 people on twitter
1 post to indihackers
1 post to Hackernews
Launch to audience on twitter
So far the post on hackernews has generated 2/3 visits. Additonally, there was a decent amount of people who were exited about the product and posted about it.
The contacting of 60 people on twitter was amazing!
So much feedback and people loved the icebreakers which made for really quick validation.
Other then that.
Talk about things that they are interested in.
Things that people are generally interested in talking about:
- Themselves
- Their business
- Things that they are thinking about
I have further noticed that by engaging with people they are more interested in me (something i am interested in)
Its like creating a local twitter engagement group and my engagement rates on twitter increased by about 25%.
Additionally people are so happy to provide feedback!
Recently also added a generator for linkedin messages :)
