Thread by @vponamariov

I sold Pingr.

One of the hardest tweets for me.

Lessons below 👇

Some stats

🔸Time spent: ~14 months
🔸Hours spent: ~1000
🔸Number of users: ~560
🔸Number of paying users: ~20
🔸Number of lifetime deals sold: ~20
🔸Total traffic: ~23K
🔸Revenue: negative
🔸Price: I cannot disclose the price, but it covered my development time fully

1 / Listen to others but make your own decisions. After I posted on Reddit, I decided to change my pricing model, but it turned out to be a mistake. I listened to others.

When a user asked me for something, I immediately started doing it.

Make your own decisions.

2 / Every time someone will be happy with your product and pricing, somebody will be sad.

t’s okay. You should make mindful and reasonable decisions. Not emotional ones.

3 / Despite many people talking about idea validation, I still think that if you start a product, and there are many competitors - then you’re okay.

If you don’t have any - then you’re at big risk.

Meaning, don’t stick to some super unique idea.

4 / You should focus on a small feature-set. Your MVP should be indeed MVP.

I think I shouldn’t have worked on status pages since alerting that your site is down is the core functionality, and I spent quite a lot of time messing with status pages.

5 / On the one hand, you should have a USP.

On the other hand, it’s not that easy to think of something unique that competitors don’t have.

In my opinion, you’re still able to grow your product without an initial USP, but don't blindly copy others, try to find something

6 / It is possible to have revenue without using paid Ads, Take a look at @PlausibleHQ post or the story of @webflow on HN. I almost haven’t paid for ads, and all of my users came from free channels.

plausible.io/blog/best-mark…
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=257927…

7 / You should make a landing page and start collecting emails as soon as possible, I didn’t make it. I have a funny joke over this… Sadly, but true:

https://twitter.com/vponamariov/status/1293717405500235776

8 / Don’t use the top-notch tech stack. Use the stack you know.

However, make sure your core features work good because I had problems with them. It turned out the product was way more complex than I initially thought.

Special thanks for @rosiesherry @alexanderisora @IT_mafija @feriforgacs @amy_sitwala @sumitdatta @jamesmkenny @brunoraljic @KostjaPalovic @MarkoSaric @itsbalal and every indie hacker I know!

Read the full article here indiehackers.com/post/i-sold-pi…

If you have any questions, I'd be glad to answer!

For some reason, I forgot to mention... @IndieHackers !

Large thanks go to the community!

Thank you all for such great support guys! Incredible! 🥲🥺

Now I have enough time to dedicate it to my passion: user interfaces.

Here is my humble attempt to run a newsletter. I will share with you the best UI tips I find on the web.

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