Learnings from building and launching weeklygoal.app

[gspfever08]

Tech Stack: Python, Flask, Postgresql and Twilio APIHosting: AWSCost to operate: $8 month ($6 for AWS AppRunner + $2 on Twilio costs). Technically AWS is free since I got $1,000 worth of credits for the first 12 monthGetting first users: Pushed my family and friends to try it outMeasure of success: Number of users who tracked at least one goal with my appKey learnings:

• If it's not measured, it won't improve. You need to know what your target metric is and how you gonna track it.
• Even if it's free, people don't just come and find you on the internet
• Launch on ProductHunt, I got ~45 users from launching on ProductHunt and you don't need to be in the top 3 launches for the day. Here's my launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/weekly-goal-app

• Afterwards applied to https://buildspace.so/ for season 4 and got accepted. This got me some additional users
• Last but not least, I started sharing my experiences and product on Reddit. Got banned form a few r/'s so don't do what I was doing. Instead think about what can provide value to people in the relevant r/'s. E.g. look at this post covering my tech stack
  https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/16eo7vs/hosting_saas_for_free

I hope this is useful to someone out there. Let me know if you got any questons, happy to help others to launch their apps. Also, give www.weeklygoal.app a try

Here's a graph of my usages based on launch:

https://imgur.com/a/c3mb6G0

 

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@gspfever08 Is there a way we could connect on LinkedIn? Would love to stay connected and see your journey towards growth .