On October 22 I've launched online my first website. I'd like to share with you my experience. But first, let me gave you some context: I came up with the idea around the beginning of October. I searched if there's already something similar around. Nothing showed up. Great! I started building the app Two weeks later i had something that i thought it was complete. I was ready to let the world know about my amazing website. I decided to proceed in 3 steps: : was a complete fail, no traction at all and i've got only 6 upvote, not enough for making it to the front page. 1st day - HackerNews - : was quite better but did not get the engagement that i was excepting ( i guess that it could happen 🙂) 2nd day IndieHackers was the best source of traction among the three (97 upvote) and even got some paying customer. That day i was euphoric 🥳 3rd day - ProductHunt : I was very disappointed by the first two launches. Like a little kid, as i still am, i hoped that magically all the people would love unconditionally my product and share it. What i though was a final website in reality it was just a draft, or to be more precise my on how to place and promote the product was and idea fuzzy incomplete: I changed the description of my website in each of the launch. I even added one basic feature during Product Hunt's launch by reading their comments. I did not think about the importance of having a twitter account ( create it later , after PH 🤦‍♂️). It gives a social proof and prevent you to be categorize as a scam. I did not read HackerNews submission rules, i could have changed the title and observe those rules. I can see now after a months that the major problem was me being too eager to launch my website. Being my first project ( and a IndieHackers wannabe  👨‍💻) I gave that It made me on simpler and more important things. too much importance to the idea of launching it lose focus TL;DR Launched my website on Hackernews, Indiehackers, Producthunt, but got traction only in the latter. I did not have a clear idea about my product and how to place it. Those are my takeways If you are about to launch something: have a clear for your product ( it helps when you communicate with your users and even with yourselves) positioning into things ( prepare every details of the launch , even perfect product need perfect marketing) don't rush your enthusiasm think that your product it's so good that everyone will talk about it. don't let have a before launching ( users can engage directly with you) social account 🗣 ( receive comment and have a conversation with your users is fundamental for understanding how you could shape your product to better fit their needs) interact with the final users I'm still thrilled of this experience. It gave me a lot of confidence in my capabilities and i'm happy to have made those mistakes. It only means next time i'll be more prepared. I really hope that you could find some help from those words 😇 If you are curious of what my website is about, you can check and let me know what you think. P.S. IsRicherThanYou.com

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