Solo dev trying to make marketing into habit.
Laid-off senior software engineer now coding solo with no business success so far. 8+ months and counting.marketingfor.dev Jakarta, IDJoined April 2013
If any of you,
is thinking to post in Reddit to promote your product, here are the important tips:
- do not lie/fake something
- do not use AI to write your post
Redditors' eyes are well-trained now to spot those two things, they will also check up on your profile activities.
Get this into your brain:
The hardest part of launching a product is not the development.
Writing code is the easy part. Marketing is the part that makes you question everything.
When you’re coding, you’re in control ,you plan, build, debug, ship.
Marketing?
You’re…
First time infiltrating discord server …..
for marketing, yes.
Seems promising, people can ask questions and there are answers from people (better than X then 😆)
hope that I don’t get banned on day one like in Reddit
I need your wisdom, peeps
Someone with a big following (and a successful business) says that selling to fellow builders (indiehackers) is waste of time.
Do you agree?
Screw framework,
lets launch just with a single html file -> upload to Cloudflare and be done with it.
marketingfor.dev
Well, along with some other images.
Currently trying out a marketing tactic:
lazily plugs my job posting clipper extension, huntingpad, on Linkedin posts about layoff.
I'm not one to promote lazy plug, but curious if volume beats quality in Linkedin 😆
Plus, there is no risk of ban at all unlike reddit
Telling a founder that their idea/product sucks is like telling a mother that her baby is ugly.
The difference is telling a founder the truth could save them from months of 0 progress and bigger heartache.
Simplest form of marketing:
go to where your customers hang out online, then DM them.
You could have the best product in the world for their problem, but it's no good to them if they don't know that.
Now let me gather the courage to do it myself too 😆
Prototyping tricks 💡
Before doing the actual coding, ask Claude to:
generate a clickable prototype using
html + pure css + pure js
that simulates the critical ux flow of your idea.
works for mobile app as well.
Been working solo for 8+ months now, curious to know If I am not alone in feeling these things:
- No one to bounce ideas off
- Burdened by having so many things to do
- the constant switching and juggling things
- feeling that no one cares or understands your struggle
Please, I want to know the truth from you all:
Is waitlist useful at all? This is an approach dating back to 2010s AFAIIK, but so far from my experience it’s been useless.
Currently deliberating to have one or not on a new app
Anyone on the same boat?
I'm starting to get into the habit of asking to myself "can i market this" before building each idea i'm reading on my notes before opening the terminal.
Just found out that I've spent $1,269 of Claude tokens in just 3 weeks of subscribing to the $100 Max plan.
Built 3 full products using Claude Code.
It's like hiring a senior dev for $100/mo who works 24/7 and are experts in multiple skills.
Worth every penny.
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