What Are Your Goals for November?
It's November 2nd already. Roughly 60 days until 2021 (unless they were right about the asteroids or alien invasion capping off 2020).
What are your maker goals for the 11th month of the year?
Up to now
For me, I've been building Eager.app help desk software for the past 12+ months. Finally launched it this past weekend. I still consider the app to be beta and there are a lot of features I want to add.
Goals for November
- Got some paying customers (yay). It's been fairly steady the past few days, so I was pleasantly surprised. I hope to get about 25-30 "core" customers by the end of this month.
- Improve landing page. I have some plans on how to improve the SEO. It'll involve a lot more text than the typical SAAS style landing page. I'll be running some experiments to see how it compares with the previous.
- Further the development of mobile apps (iOS and Android). This was started last month. I do hope to have a beta out by mid or early December. This is somewhat of a stretch goal, but we'll see.
- Start testing out the tech stack for the chat/chatbot platform, so it can be developed in December/January.
What about you? What are you November goals?
Congrats on the launch! I've seen your ads here on Makerlog, now I'm interested in what was your main acquisition channel for your currently paying users?
My goals for November are:
- Test out 3 marketing strategies for soundescape.io
- Prepare everything for the PH Launch, which will be in December if everything goes well
- Further iterate based on gathered user feedback
There would be more to mention here, but everything is basically bound to point 1 of the list
- Creating soundscapes that should resonate well with certain subreddits, e.g. /r/CozyPlaces and the like. This has already brought in some fair amount of traffic, would like to see if that could be scaled somehow.
- Using YouTube as an acquisition channel by creating long videos for each soundscape. This will take some time until it shows possible effects, that's why I'm doing it early on.
- Finding more of those "one-off" opportunities like posting on PH, e.g. BetaList or /r/InternetIsBeautiful.
I'm still tinkering around with many other ideas, but marketing is by far the area where I'm most inexperienced when it comes to building a product. I also would like to not spend money on marketing before I'm generating revenue, and I think that should be possible.
Would love to hear some suggestions!
Congrats on the launch! I've seen your ads here on Makerlog, now I'm interested in what was your main acquisition channel for your currently paying users?
Thanks @scriptifyjs!
Main marketing channel right now is word of mouth and contacts from previous freelance work. Honestly, it's just a lot of hustle and reaching out to people I know. Several people signed up and paid over the weekend and yesterday, so it's encouraging so far.
Just checked out Soundscape.io -- that is a really neat idea. Deserves a spot on in the bookmark toolbar. Hehe -> https://twitter.com/geetfun/status/1323670853846970369
@scriptifyjs Reddit is great for sure, what about fb groups and trying to get guest post somewhere?
@xavier The last time I logged into FB was probably two years ago, so I'd need to get back into it. Do you think that would be a good place to promote such a product? I always had the shallow impression that FB is better suited for B2B products But will def look into it. Regarding guest posts, that's what I'd like to do after trying out all of the above, can you recommend any good learning resources? Btw, just checked out Spreadtheworld, really helpful!
My goals are:
- Reach 3k followers on Twitter
- Grow the audience of spreadtheworld with content & promotion. 100 sales would be awesome!
- Building a new project and start the pre-orders ( #6projectsIn6months!)
I hope to ship my first ever web application by the end of this month.
Then i will focus on advertising and trying to reach some customers :)
Create the window/navigation system for my new app and get it running on 5 platforms: iOS, ipadOS, macOS, Windows, and Android
Take building in public further: start tweeting daily, record what I'm doing for the future tutorials/tweets
@scriptifyjs MvvmCross to follow the MVVM architecture and Xamarin.Essentials to have a unified cross-platform API for stuff like app preferences or text-to-speech.
(I don't use Xamarin.Forms UI framework which is usually associated with .NET mobile development, just "native" Xamarin – simply C# bindings to the APIs of each platform.)
My goals are:
- Complete and launch Learning Story
- Continue to build in public on my Twitter
- Write 2-3 blog posts for dpashutskii.com
- Get back on Youtube and publish at least one video from the old footage.
This month Chartbrew will be coming out of Beta. So 23rd of November will be the release day!
- Need to finish an interactive product demo
- Revamp the homepage
- Modify the pricing plans and factor-in launch offers
- Write up new pages for SEO and features description
- Some bug fixes and improvements
I am participating in On Deck, batch 6 since early October. And a lot of my attention has shifted there. Meeting and collaborating with potential co-founders, hackathons/build weekends (monthly), etc.
I also started collaborating with a founder from within On Deck on her product as a trial for a future co-founding relation. My primary product work has become part-time and will stay that way till mid-December 2020, end of my On Deck batch.
I will continue to focus on building potential partnership/co-founding relations with the really smart folks that are inside On Deck. We have access to folks from all batches, not just mine. Next build weekend is from November 19, 2020 and I am thinking of a founder accountability/mastermind group MVP. So a busy month to say the least.
Congrats on the launch 🚀 Your website looks neat!
As for me, we've been working on our very own AI Social Media Manager that can mimic your social media behavior through observation.
My goals for November:
- Reach 100 sign-ups to the waitlist and start sharing some contents/blogs 🤞
- Finish internal tests and improve the model of our AI 🔨
- Launch it for early users to start using it and get feedback 🚀
- Also include pricing on our landing page 😳
- freelance work (Stripe payments)
- prepare #deploymentfromscratch for pre-release
Just a bit late considering it's the 19th but just getting started at Makerlog. I've completed a few of the goals for the month but still have a few things to get done before the end of the month.
For Browse Me Later:
- Publish Browse Me Later landing page (done)
- Set up initial potential customer research flow (done)
- Get 25 interest signups with survey responses
For Carme Desk
- Publish first two products (done)
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