Building a tool for busy small business owners without marketing skills!

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Most Side Projects die quietly, not from bad code, but from unclear value. If users don’t understand how you help them within the first minute, they leave. Fix your positioning. Lead with outcomes, not features. Show proof. Make the CTA obvious. Simple language wins.

Indie success isn’t just product-market fit. It’s distribution-market-message-product fit. Build the traffic before the tool, and your launch becomes a conversion engine.

Turn interest into commitment. Ask your most engaged leads:. ✅ “Would you pay for this today if we launch in 30 days?”. ✅ “Want to pre-order at a discount?”.Even 5-10 pre-orders are a strong green light.

Collect signals before shipping. If you can’t get:. ✅ 50 signups.✅ 10 replies.✅ 3 DMs asking “when can I try it?”. …you don’t need to build the product yet. Reframe and test again.

Leverage “audience arbitrage.”. Write helpful answers in communities where no one else is solving the problem well. Examples:. ✅ Reddit.✅ Slack groups.✅ Private Facebook groups.✅ X replies under relevant creators.

Run a fake-door test. Build a landing page with a clear CTA (“Try the product”). When clicked, show: “We’re still building this! Want early access?”. Tool: Carrd + Measure interest before writing code.

Interview 10 potential users. Record the exact words they use to describe their problem. Those phrases will become your landing page copy and tweet hooks.

Create a “Zero-User Funnel.”. ✅ Day 1: Publish a Notion guide.✅ Day 2: Collect emails with Beehiiv.✅ Day 3: Build a simple landing page with Typedream. No product yet: just validation and data.

Start a 30-day audience experiment. Post 1 short insight, problem, or question per day on X or LinkedIn around your niche. You’ll quickly learn what content resonates, aka what problems are painful enough to solve.

Pick a niche + problem combo. Not “small business software.”. Go sharper: “Scheduling tool for indie yoga instructors with 1-5 clients.”. Specificity makes it easier to market and build.

Most indie hackers obsess over the product and forget the distribution. But traffic without code is more powerful than code without traffic. Here’s how to build distribution before launch 👇.

Anthropic caught their AI trying to literally murder an employee. To avoid being shut down. Why is this not the biggest breaking news story in the world?

The most powerful growth levers in side-project aren’t always technical, they’re emotional. Build features your users love, then ask them to share their wins. Showcase real stories. Use those moments in your email copy, landing pages, and retargeting. Your best marketing.

Most SaaS growth advice skips over this: keep your product simple, but make your message sharp. Talk less about features and more about real-life use cases. Show who it helps, how fast, and what changes after they use it. Then reuse those stories everywhere, on your site, in.

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One of the easiest ways to generate leads for your project is to build something useful, free, and ultra-specific. A simple calculator, checklist, or generator that solves a small pain point for your niche can outperform ads. Embed it on your site, add a CTA, and track.

RT @microDesignn: Building something cool but struggling to get attention?. You might have a positioning problem. Here’s how to position y….

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You don’t need hundreds of features to grow your SaaS. You need one great solution, framed clearly, delivered fast. Build something that removes a painful task or saves real time. Then document everything, your approach, your reasoning, your results. Show your thinking, and.