Startup Idea Validator is launching tomorrow on Product Hunt! 🎉

Would really appreciate your support tomorrow 👇🏼

Click here to get a notification 📢

Finished writing the launch text for the Product Hunt launch

Next up: make some good looking images!

Introducing Startup Idea Validator 🎉

✅ Validate your startup idea in just 20 seconds

Supercharge your startup idea with:

🔍 Idea & market assessment

🌐 Competitor overview & differentiators

🛣️ Personalized action plan

📊 Laser-focused strategies to reach your target market

Launching on Product Hunt this Sunday!

As an indie maker, competing against big companies is tough.

Any help is greatly appreciated Subscribe now and don't miss out 👇🏼

https://www.producthunt.com/products/startup-idea-validator

Still to do before launch:

• Make launch images for Product Hunt

• OG Banner

Ready for launch.

Scheduling it for next Sunday so I can build some anticipation and hopefully have some people subscribe to the launch.

Buidling a new tool to help founders validate their startup ideas.

Done so far:

• Basic UI front-end

• Research & decision on content to provide founders

• API back-end implementation
  
  

Still needed:

• Fine-tune response

• Improve UI front-end

• Get some beta-testers

• Marketing?

To celebrate the first 100 users on Indie Logs and 2000 followers on X, I am building a new free tool for solopreneurs and indiehackers.

Can you guess what it is? 🤔

✅ Public feed that displays all the latest updates from various startups is now LIVE!

The feed is supposed to cut through the noise & only present the key information - no likes, no comments.

The idea is to further drive more visibility into your projects as this will ease discovery of your feed.

My goal with Indie Logs is twofold:

• Help founders build trust by making it easy for them to showcase consistent progress

• Give them additional visibility by rewarding people who constantly ship.
  
  

Click here to go to the live feed!

What do you guys think? Feel free to let me know! 🙏🏽

Travelling today, but still managed to get some work done early in the morning:

• Optimized the logs fetching function

• Editor UI improvements

• Generated 50 blog articles

• Finished working on the feed. Will be live soon! 🔥

New updates for Indie Logs!

💰 Pricing

• Previously: 1 startup free, €4.95/month for unlimited startups

• Now: 1 startup free, €24.95 for premium lifetime accesslimited

🏞️ Image compression

✍🏼 New editor

• Add links (https://indielogs.com/rankings)

Center stuff

• Underline, and italic

• Strike and addthingslikethis

• Code highlight:

<html> code </code>

🛣️ Next-up on the roadmap:

• Pin logs

• Select which logs you want to display on your website

• All updates feed

• Add images in editor

• Startup directory browser

• Build 4-5 free tools to use for marketing

• Removed scrollbar for live embeddings - much cleaner effect.

• Feed for all makers going live soon - almost ready.

Working on something new 😎

Done today:

• Generated another 100 blog posts to help with SEO

• Indexed all new profiles

• Improved fetching

• Removed startups without logo's from the rankings

• Recorded new demo

Continued working on the photo studio this morning. If life allows me, I hope to get it working soon!

Adding timeline to WorkoutPro!

Improved embedding flow - you can now see how the 30 different themes look like before selecting them!

Timeline embeddings for your project is now LIVE! 🎉

You can now embed live startup updates on your site in less than 20 sec. with Indie Logs!

• Share progress from your Indie Logs profile

• Choose one of +30 themes

• Showcase your updates in a timeline that fits your brand's look.
  
  

Easy!

Next on the to-do-list:

• Highlight feature on landing page

• Add theme/style demos when selecting

• New logo - don't like this one tbh

• Figure out S3 storage

Building a cool new feature for Indie Logs today: embeddings!

You'll be able to embed your project timeline on your own website, and be able to select different styles so that it matches the style of your own website.

No need to build your own log updates/timeline system. You can just share everything on Indie Logs and easily embed it into your own website.

✅ Improved onboarding experience.

Getting good amounts of traffic but conversion not optimal. Hope this helps!

Here is how it looks like:

I have been getting a lot of traffic from Google for ImagenMIA, but have not been able to convert much of it into paying users. 😕

Most people will create an account, but after seeing the paywall, they will drop off.

Currently, these are my stats:

• 2100 unique users on my landing page

• 940 created an account

• 4 sales

Clearly, conversion is not great 😅

As I am starting to see more and more traffic from Google and SEO is starting to pay off, I have decided to improve the onboarding experience to see if that improves free user to paid user conversion.

I will also be implementing and introducing an AI photo studio sometime in the future.

Initial MVP done!

Time to build those ranking pages!

Worked on some RPC functions in order to be able to flexibly query stitched data from multiple tables.

Not a lot of visible work for now, but will be implementing it soon across flexible rankings! Should be good.

Added heatmaps + dynamic OG images!

Experimenting with calendar heatmap!

While working on dynamic OG's I realized I was using SSR incorrectly.

It took me a bit longer than I would have liked but managed to:

• Fix SSR issues

• Dynamic OGs almost ready

Working on dynamic OG banners again. Got a good base design that is dynamically generated for each user. However, it still needs to be implemented and correctly read by Twitter and other social platforms.

No idea why, but when sharing, it does not display the dynamically generated OG banner, even though the meta tags contain the correct URL.

Updates:

• Some security improvements

• Improved ranking queries and added flexibility for future use

• Posted on Reddit

• Had multiple conversations with different early users to understand needs & have product improvement ideas

Affiliate program running!

Today I'm (pretending to be) doing some marketing. Will post on Reddit and think about what strategies I can leverage to get more people on Indie Logs.

Started using TagParrot to automatically index my pages.

I have about 1400+ pages that need indexing. Let's hope this gets me some organic traffic!

New logo using DALL-E!

I was able to improve dynamic OG generation, however, it keeps timing out for Twitter.

Therefore I'll make sure to pre-generate them and store in S3 once I have figured that out. So it will have to wait for a bit.

Other than that, I am going to record a new demo video today and publish on Twitter that IndieLogs is now available for everyone!

FYI - here is how the dynamic OG banners will probably look like:

First attempt at generating dynamic OG images 🤣

SEO is starting to pay off. Happy with the first spike!

This log will be used to track popular feature requests:

Feature requests:

• Dynamic OG banners

• Buildstreak

• Like/comments (2x)

• API to link it to Zapier and other automation platforms

• Emojis

• Tag @indielogs on Twitter and automatically display them over here

Done:

• Double redirect fixed (/app)

• Multiselect dropdown for categories

• Added valid URL checks for domain and logo

• Added logo uploads for startups

• Added Youtube video support

Time to get going again!

Will implement some feedback I got yesterday.

Will use this log to track feedback I have gotten from users + stuff I think needs to be added/improved:

To fix/edit:

• Categories -> select instead of free text

• Logo -> Add logo uploads instead of URL

• Fix /app double redirect

• Startup URLs: automatically add https:// if not included

• Add local time + 1 hour difference issue

Other:

• Record up-to-date demo for landing page