Day 201 of posting 💛
So grateful for this journey
Big thanks to everyone who supported me from the start
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The dev is a friend and a solo builder crafting great product
Just released in Snowball 🔥🔥
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Just released in Snowball 🔥🔥
✅ Upload up to 4 videos per post (or mix up images, GIFs and videos)
✅ We resize/compress images/videos automatically for you:
▪︎ 📸 No more 5mb image file upload limit 🎉
▪︎ 📈 Increased max video upload size 👉 up to 2GB
Just released in Snowball 🔥🔥
✅ Upload up to 4 videos per post (or mix up images, GIFs and videos)
✅ We resize/compress images/videos automatically for you:
▪︎ 📸 No more 5mb image file upload limit 🎉
▪︎ 📈 Increased max video upload size 👉 up to 2GB
Yesterday launch was (finally) a big success 🔥
👇 FULL STORY 👇
Snowball was NOT featured for more than half of the day...
...BUT we managed to catch up and reach the top 4 thanks to YOU ALL 🔥
Here's the full recap of everything that happened:
1) What I did to prepare 💪
2) Step by step what I did during launch day 🥵
3) How I managed to finally get featured during the day ⭐
4) Early results with numbers 📈
Let's go 👇
1) Launch preparation
▪︎ Mostly created assets for the PH launch page 🎨
▪︎ creating a software to showcase the launch with a livestream 👨💻
▪︎ adding PH "Live" banner to my website
▪︎ creating special discount codes in Stripe to drive sales %
▪︎ updating the landing page to be more attractive 💅
▪︎ creating launch post for X (on @Snowball_club ❄️)
▪︎ setting up the livestream with OBS ⚙️
▪︎ making sure the basic sign up flow for new customers works
▪︎ schedule the launch post for 12:01 PST 📅
▪︎ write a check list for the launch day of everything to do in order ☑︎
▪︎ SLEEP at least 6 hours to survive the next day 😂
2) Launch day
▪︎ wake up 1h before the start ⏰
▪︎ fire up the livestream and make sure everything works well (with QR Code for upvotes) 🔴
▪︎ post about the launch everywhere I could: product hunt forum, IndieHackers, hackernews, reddit, bluesky ✍️
▪︎ attached the live stream under my launch post so people can't miss it
▪︎ sent 60+ DMs asking for support to the list of people I myself upvoted previously 📩
▪︎ update my X launch post every 1h about number of votes or any kind of updates like asking for support to reach next place, or not being featured etc
▪︎ replied like a madman to EVERY comment on X, ProductHunt, Reddit, IH, etc ⚡
▪︎ self reposted the main launch post every 6 hours to boost impressions 🔁
▪︎ engaged on the feed with some people to show up on more feeds myself 💬
▪︎ Set up a quick email campaign with @resend to ask Snowball existing user base for support 💌
3) How I got featured
▪︎ 4 hours in I realize Snowball was NOT featured 😱
▪︎ I was obviously upset so I decided to take action
▪︎ DMd ProductHunt's CEO Rajiv Ayyangar (@rajivayyangar) 📩
▪︎ Sent email to the support [email protected] 📧
▪︎ Both to explain the situation: asking what was wrong and trying to understand why Snowball was not featured
▪︎ Waited a bit: no answer 😐
▪︎ So decided to tweet about it and tagged @ProductHunt on a few posts to let them know 📢
▪︎ After a few hours, finally got a reply from their support: they "missed" it during the initial review 🙇♂️
▪︎ SNOWBALL WAS FINALLY FEATURED 🎉 and now we had to catch up on votes 🏃💨
4) Launch in numbers numbers
🏅 4th product of the day
🗳️ 278 upvotes
💬 53 comments
📈 450 unique visitors for the day
👥 +65 accounts created
🤑 +12 new paying customers (in trial atm)
💰 +$240 MRR
Can't thank this community enough for all the support I received yesterday, you are amazing ❤️
🙏 Thank you!
PS: there are one or two discount codes left still working (somewhere in the ProductHunt description 👀)
LAUNCH ALERT 🔴
Snowball 2.0 is LIVE on ProductHunt 🔥
(limited number of crazy lifetime deals in thread👇)
💪 I worked like a madman for a year to make it the best X growth platform so please go give it a try!
✊ So many improvements over 1.0 that it should be called Snowball 5.0.
Your support would mean the world to me 🙏
Let's show those VC funded companies the indie community is STRONGER than money and we can reach the top together 🫡
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