![]() ![]() Thankfully, that's fairly easy to accomplish nowdays, but I can't, for example, do a multi day camping or hiking trips. Also - I plan all vacations around it (well, those are really vacations for my wife, I try and keep working as much as I can on them) by making sure we always have good internet connection and we're never somewhere where we won't have internet for more than a day. That said - I haven't had a day without working on it (for at least 30minutes to handle support email) in more than 15 years. I'm lucky to have found something I'm passionate about and that I can be helpful to others with. Yes - this business supports me and my family and I don't have or need another job. Haven't delved into SEO (barely rank for anything), content marketing, paid advertising, etc, so it's still very much a learning process for me. I could probably do a better job of promoting Divjoy on there. I also started a React hooks blog that sends me a handful of customers every month. Beyond that, just improving the product every day, sharing my progress on Twitter, and trying really hard to turn every new feature into an exciting launch event. ![]() I wasn't yet charging at the point, but probably for the best, since high usage meant a lot of feedback.Ī few months later I launched on Product Hunt and that went well. I think something like 4k projects were created that day. Then my Show HN sent like 15k visitors in a day and that led to a ton of usage. That was enough to iterate on until I had an MVP. You just need the right person to retweet you. It certainly helped that I had an okay Twitter following at the time (I think around 1k), but it doesn't need to be huge. My first batch of alpha testers came from a single Twitter reply that got retweeted by a prominent person in the React community. ![]()
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