If you follow the cardinal rule of: Add value, you can figure it out. Be a legit specialist in an area, and talk about it. After you talk about it, add a small plug link to where people can learn more of what you are talking about.
Thanks for all the likes btw 🤝
I have followed some starter packs but don’t know how to get listed on one. How can I do that?
I’d take a bot like at this point. Engagement on anything I post is basically zero.
If this was helpful, like, follow, and repost 👍
7. Referral programs can incentivize creators to boost your signal. Giving them 50% is better than having 0% of that customer. This is especially true with sass and digital products where customer acquisition is your biggest cost per customer.
6. Don’t underestimate network effect. Happy customers are the best referrers of more business.
5. Leverage directories. Not only will they boost your SEO ranking, but they will also reach people looking for solutions. Post your product on every directory that is a match for your niche.
4. Make friends with newsletter writers. They have massive reach and if your product matches their audience, it could be a goldmine for you.
3. Content creation on social media. You don’t need to be at a mega scale for this to work. But create sharp helpful content for your niche so you can be found on platforms like X and Reddit
2. Learn to leverage small content creators. TikTok creators (10k-100k) who are in your niche and can post about your app.
1. Learn about SEO. Not only will this help you with search engine visibility, but more importantly with LLM visibility. @dannypostmaa on X has an excellent course on this.
The landscape for Sass and native apps is changing…
With the barrier to entry to creating a Sass or native apps being so low, competition will shift to other areas: design/ux and distribution. For design and ux, hire a good product designer (like me). But for distro, here are some tips:
I’ve only been on less than 24 hours, and with focused engagement, the algo is getting better.
Looking for any San Diego based Indiehackers, builders, founders.
Creating a starter pack list.
Let’s connect
It seems I am able to tune this feed easily. I just keep interacting with only indiehacker or product content, and it is filtering out anything political.
Like a breath of fresh air.
👋 let’s go!!
10. If you need help understanding any of this, reply in the comments, or hit me up. DMs are open.
9. Realize that no code AI tools are a convergence of skills: UX, UI, and development. Think like a UX designer
8. Take the time before you prompt to think about the experience end to end. The AI builds what you tell it to; so if you can’t understand it in your mind, the AI is going to guess
7. Use outline formatting. These AIs understand the structure of a formal outline, use this to your advantage
6. Build it like a full spec. If you want it to slide or animate in a specific way, describe that in your initial prompt.
5. If you are building a responsive app, mention that ahead of time. Then when you are refining, you can mention specific breakpoints if you want layout revisions or whatever.
4. Be clear about where you want to deploy the app (ie web, native mobile, etc). And even better, you can specify the tech stack you want it to use (ie. HTML, css, vanilla JavaScript). If you don’t, it will choose whatever it thinks is best.
3. It works really well to have a UI layout ahead of time. It not only makes the UI look good, but it also helps orient the AI with the detailed prompting I mentioned above. Just drop in images of the design right in to the prompt window.
2. I will type out a bullet list of exact features I want it to have and describe them in great detail. I try to think of these bullet lists in a linear fashion so that I am spec’ing out the app piece by piece.
1. Make your initial prompt as detailed as possible. It saves on credits, but also saves reworking things. It is easier to be detailed up front, rather than trying to get it to fix things. Think of it like writing a spec for a developer.
Success with Bolt and v0 is easier than you think.
I’ve played with Bolt.new as well as v0.dev and here are some tips for crafting productive prompts…
This platform feels much cleaner, like I can become much more part of the community I want to be part of. Gonna give it a real honest try here.
Love it. Great idea. Great format. Not a fan of the background music though. You’ve got my follow 🤝
