This app has tons of PR potential, but you have to do the work. The lifehacker piece is a nice bit of social proof that you can use when contacting folks. I'd email a few dozen productivity blogs/bloggers with the new years resolution angle ("How to give your new years resolution some teeth!").
Building an app is step one. Step 2-10 is figuring out how to acquire users. Try spending literally 40 hours a week trying things on this front. Facebook ads? 2 sided referral program? Linkbait on your blog? PR hustle? Find lifehacker-y folks on Twitter and give them discount codes for their followers? Viral loops (could you get users Facebook friends to sign up?)?
Don't touch the code for 1-2 weeks and see what you can pull off! :-)
I must confess that I'm a (unhappy) lawyer by profession and decided to change paths this year (when I turned 37, so I'm probably one of the oldest guys around here ;)
Being so, the technical part of things, which is what I've just learned and am experimenting with, is where I focused. No marketing, SEO, social media, etc. I was just enjoying learning to code with a project that interested me. I don't even have a blog setup for Aherk!
I loved your ideas, especially the cold-emailing productivity blogs/bloggers, and I think this is one of the things that I'll focus on over the next few days.
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This app has tons of PR potential, but you have to do the work. The lifehacker piece is a nice bit of social proof that you can use when contacting folks. I'd email a few dozen productivity blogs/bloggers with the new years resolution angle ("How to give your new years resolution some teeth!").
Building an app is step one. Step 2-10 is figuring out how to acquire users. Try spending literally 40 hours a week trying things on this front. Facebook ads? 2 sided referral program? Linkbait on your blog? PR hustle? Find lifehacker-y folks on Twitter and give them discount codes for their followers? Viral loops (could you get users Facebook friends to sign up?)?
Don't touch the code for 1-2 weeks and see what you can pull off! :-)
Thank you for your feedback!
I must confess that I'm a (unhappy) lawyer by profession and decided to change paths this year (when I turned 37, so I'm probably one of the oldest guys around here ;)
Being so, the technical part of things, which is what I've just learned and am experimenting with, is where I focused. No marketing, SEO, social media, etc. I was just enjoying learning to code with a project that interested me. I don't even have a blog setup for Aherk!
I loved your ideas, especially the cold-emailing productivity blogs/bloggers, and I think this is one of the things that I'll focus on over the next few days.
Once again, thanks a lot!
> I turned 37, so I'm probably one of the oldest guys around here
Nope! You're not... Keep pushing hard :)