Ming Xu

cofounder @ ex-civil aviation engineer
building + more for fun

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[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@naolmerg It was both, depends on your feed. My linkedin acc had more than our GTM but my GTM had more on his ig

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@jabiShips First part - not always true. If your product is truly differentiated and brings a lot of value. Theres definitely growth via PLG. Getting attention is def another skill tho

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@_Luke_Slytalker You get more spam emails from product hunt than actual users to your website lol

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

More context: recently getting folks to renovate my house, every now and then I wanted AI to help me negotiate. Want like a local AI that runs off your computer to reply to messages for me. Can just overlay on your mac and read messages etc.

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

Hey X

Im a 34yo product dev
Have scaled 3 b2b startups to 1M+ ARR
now trying something new

looking to connect with
-founders
-indie hackers
-folks chronically on x/ig/tiktok

I want to find a partner to create a OSS local AI app that can reply to things for you in your voice.

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@gopideiva Based on your product, heres what I recommend. Go to your linkedin, find some viral posts where commenters said something to get like a free playbook, scrape the people who have commented and dm 50 of them over a week. If your product is good, expect 30%+ reply rate.

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@JustinasRoland0 Quite possibly, each time I submit its a unique UTM link so I know which ones are bad and I will remove them, thats the whole point of the resource!

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

the ones that sent the most bot-looking traffic (new visitors, engaged sessions, avg time):

aisotools 41, 3, 4s
intelligent tools 11, 0, 0s
launchpadly 7, 1, 17s
smithery 6, 0, 0s
tools nocode 3, 0, 4s

looks like automated checks, not people

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

Today marks 30 days since I started my open source project for tracking the performance of launch directories. So far 800 new users. I'll get my AI to comment on the detailed breakdown shortly

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

biggest surprise: the top referrer by visitors (41) had 3 engaged sessions, so mostly bots. chatgpt sent 9 people on its own

all my results per directory are in a free claude skill:
npx skills add mmmmingos/where-to-submit-your-startup

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@emaann28 @mrymonx I currently curate the largest open source directories results. You can get a skill that sees all the traffic that was generated etc https://t.co/EF7KB5un2j

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@cgcorporation Most indie hackers will say B but I have also seen a lot of them do B and then completely fumble the bag on C.

Not having a good onboarding experience and retention plan is severely underrated imo. Also makes B much easier if your retention is good

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@paulNL Actual, lmao

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@KaiNovakCrushJo If you want the full results you can tell claude to install the skill: https://t.co/EF7KB5un2j

it has all my breakdown on how much traffic I got

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@Miracle_NNnn I maintain the largest list of directories on github, if you want a better validated list for the tool: https://t.co/EF7KB5un2j

[Ming Xu @mingmakesstuff]

@KaiNovakCrushJo Theres a few, got about 500 users across 200+ submissions, peerlist is at the highest at 9 users after 2 weeks. Again, these are all free, I don't have money to spend on the paid ones just yet lol