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[Vishal Chandra 👻 @vishalchandra]

What I learnt from a year of newsletter experiments (Thread)

* Choosing what to write about
* Frequency of publishing
* How to structure content?
* How to measure performance?
* Marketing the newsletter
* How to go from 1K to 25K?

Read below 👇

[Vishal Chandra 👻 @vishalchandra]

We are used to tweeting and even writing great long form content.

But one day you will be on stage or on a Zoom call and then the rules will be all different.

Here’s how to give a (great) talk 👇🏽

(Thread)

[Vishal Chandra 👻 @vishalchandra]

Building in public

Pros:
* fast feedback
* engage users earlier
* find true fans
* stay accountable

Cons:
* Get copied fast

Pros >> Cons

Features, design can get copied but never community or your true fans

[Vishal Chandra 👻 @vishalchandra]

Three tricks to successfully bootstrap your startup?

* Keep costs really low
* Tight focus on cash flows
* Standard Operating Procedures

SOPs help because:
* stops you from reactive, adhoc
* automate to be efficient
* saves brain cycles for growth plans

[Vishal Chandra 👻 @vishalchandra]

How much would you pay / month per family member for a privacy first, Ads FREE, social app with messaging, photo filters, stories etc + unlimited storage?

cc: @TurnerNovak

[Vishal Chandra 👻 @vishalchandra]

Me running my startup👇🏽

Someday I will use all the learning I got 😅

https://t.co/lMCSUOFu81

[Open Incubator @_openinc]

Do you have a public roadmap for your product?

It’s essential to build trust with your user community

GitHub does 👇🏽 (share yours if you do, in the replies below)

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

We just published the GitHub product roadmap so that you can see what we're building now: https://t.co/yw52tdjkdK

This will become more complete over time, and we'll keep it updated as things change.

We're excited about "working with the garage door open."

Feedback welcome!

[Open Incubator @_openinc]

Get your active users to pitch the product back to you

[Pietro Invernizzi @pinverrr]

Today I’ve met a founder who - at the end of each fundraising meeting - asks the potential investor to briefly pitch her company to her. She said it helps her get a feel for how aligned their visions are and how excited the investor really is. Pretty cool hack 😎

[Stefan Vetter @stefanvetter]

6. Think about making your numbers public and becoming an Open Startup.

This not only creates more trust with colleagues and customers, but is also great for marketing.

@baremetrics offers a curated list at https://t.co/mnNdxWPsgl.

We are one of them! https://t.co/iozES73IW4

[Vishal Chandra 👻 @vishalchandra]

#1

What is the most interesting thing you learnt last week, which you would love to apply in future?

(Can be tech, product, user, team, biz, design, industry, ideas, strategy, process, ‘about myself’, productivity, success, peace, life, etc related)

[Open Incubator @_openinc]

@buildOnBase building in “public” and getting rapid feedback from peers and users

[Vishal Chandra 👻 @vishalchandra]

Things not in control:
1. Clients paying on time
2. VCs liking the pitch

Things in control:
1. Continue building
2. Collecting inputs from users

Sustain till it becomes self-sustainable

#indiemaker

[Open Incubator @_openinc]

Check out > https://t.co/O31tyc2sqm - In-app bug reporting and in-app features request platform for mobile apps

[ReportBug @ReportBug2]

Our brand new design and #token based #integration is #live.
#startup #GooglePlay #appdev #appdevelopment

[Vishal Chandra 👻 @vishalchandra]

The most value your idea has, is on the day you came up with it

After that it’s a decaying function of time and can only be saved by executing on your idea

[Rich Haines @studio_hungry]

@yarobagriy Working on @dev_pack an app to help keep your online presence consistent across multiple platforms. https://t.co/rZKOEwxwym

[An | Anton Röhm @AnTheMaker]

@yarobagriy I'm currently building https://t.co/iP3G69u4uv and plan to invite some more people from the waiting list today! 🥳

[Edgaras @edgarasben]

@yarobagriy @IndieHackers Very early stages of Content Writing Jobs @jobs_content. The mission is to reduce friction between writers and hiring companies :)

[Robin Vander Heyden @Vinrob]

@yarobagriy Building ManyRequests, a SaaS for productized services 😁

[Jamil Abreu @jamilabreu]

@yarobagriy Made a slack app for team leads to privately DM everyone in a channel: https://t.co/X5wMDZdPas

LMK what you think 🙂

[Matthew @mattbefo]

@yarobagriy @IndieHackers I’m building a simple and powerful tab manager 😊 still early stages but I’m building fast!

https://t.co/XU48ivUJic