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IndiesReadIt Development Diary - Week 8

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IndiesReadIt Development Diary - Week 8

22/01 - 1h - Adding public stats

  • While working on PH launch I thought letting people see analytics would be a good trust indicator

  • I get inspired by David Gutiérrez tool 1000.tools

  • I asked which tool I should use for public analytics until I found out the one I was using (PostHog) already has this option.

  • The need for social attention (to grow) is sometimes counter-productive.

  • The page is simply an iframe I got from PostHog.

    IndiesReadIt Public Stats

23-28/01 - 1h/day - Marketing week!

  • I mostly did marketing this week, trying to increase visibility for IndiesReadIt upcoming launch
  • I postponed a bit the launch on the advice of many influent members of #buildinpublic X community (David Gutiérrez especially)
  • Despite this advice, I decided to launch before end of month to keep momentum and stick to my plan
  • I focused on adding book from authors present on X to try to get some traction from them.
  • It doesn’t really worked as my product is not recognized enough for now. IndiesReadIt X Book Added
  • I made a story to post on Reddit for advertising IRI, posted it to
  • I recommend these subreddits from the Marc Lou’s guide
  • /indieshackers and /SideProject are the most useful to get feedback while /InternetIsBeautiful is the best for traffic IndiesReadIt Reddit
  • DO NOT submit paying products ever. Or face the Reddit anger!

Week 8 Summary

This week, IndiesReadIt focused on marketing efforts, adding books from X authors for traction. The launch proceeded on Reddit, garnering engagement across relevant subreddits, including /indiehackers, /SideProject, and /InternetIsBeautiful. Despite advice to delay, the launch emphasized commitment to the plan.

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