How I built, marketed, and sold a side-project in 3 months
My personal experiences, thoughts, challenges, and key takeaways of what building, promoting and eventually selling a side-project was like for me and could possibly be like for you. It is packed with actionable advice based on my personal experiences.
About Start With A Side-Project on Product Hunt
“How I built, marketed, and sold a side-project in 3 months”
Start With A Side-Project launched on Product Hunt on August 26th, 2020 and earned 178 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. My personal experiences, thoughts, challenges, and key takeaways of what building, promoting and eventually selling a side-project was like for me and could possibly be like for you. It is packed with actionable advice based on my personal experiences.
On the analytics side, Start With A Side-Project competes within Marketing, Startup Books, Growth Hacking, E-Commerce, Books and Side Project — topics that collectively have 805k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Start With A Side-Project performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Start With A Side-Project?
Start With A Side-Project was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Start With A Side-Project including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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