Thread by @IndieHackers

Six lessons from growing to 3600 email subscriptions in one month 👀

🔥 A thread summary from the perspective and experiences of @antdke 🔥

1️⃣ Subscribers are a vanity metric

Three weeks after Anthony launched on Product Hunt and went to #1, his growth started to slow down.

He realized can only control a couple of metrics, namely:
👉 the quality of content
👉 how active he is in his audience's communities (Twitter)

2️⃣ Focus on 1-2 attention channels

Quick feedback on what he learned:
👎 Medium - terrible organic reach
👍 LinkedIn - strong organic reach
👍 HackerNews - good organic reach
😐 Reddit - terrible to good organic reach
👀 Going forward, focus on Twitter and Indie Hackers.

3️⃣ People like numbers & pictures

Anthony came to learn that if he can communicate something visually either through numbers or emojis or images, then he'll do that. 😇

4️⃣ Learn to accept silent likes

Learn to just accept that you may get zero compliments and deeply appreciate when someone actually opens up to compliment you.

5️⃣ Talk to your subscribers often

This one is like a “Duh, obviously” one. But it’s still important. You’re writing for an audience meaning you’re crafting a product in the form of content. You gotta know what the people want.

Respect their attention.

6️⃣ Have fun 🙂

Anthony is having a blast and he'll continue to have fun. 🎈🥳🎉

👀 Full details can be found at:

indiehackers.com/product/the-pr…