How I crossed 200,000+ page views for a digital clock 🕒
I have created FlipClock. It is a simple digital clock that is inspired by a famous social-media clock called fliqlo
I launched this website on 25th December 2021 on Product hunt and since that time I have received over 200,000 views and 80,000 users using this website daily.
How I achieved it?
so there are a few reasons why this simple website got so much exposure.
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This website is a simple solution for a problem
fliqlo is a screensaver that requires a lot of time to
set up and install and it was also only available for mac. But FlipClock solves it
by making it easily accessible through the web and works on every device. -
Thing that boosted the growth 🚀
Microsiervos a Spanish new site promoted my website on 30th December 2021. I was just on top of the world after hearing this news 😁. After this, all things changed suddenly the traffic went from 50 to 700 visitors per/day. Though this got me just 1,000 views till now but it definitely started the snowball effect. -
Some new features
1 Easily toggle between light and dark mode
2 Setup events held monthly check here
3 FlipClock 2.0 , the biggest upgrade ever launched few weeks ago
The main reason for creating this app
I love desk setups, so I was just scrolling through various posts and I landed on this beautiful clock screensaver that caught my attention. And then I just googled it as I wanted to download that clock but then I found that this is just available as a screensaver, which was a bit hard for me to set up 🥲
Then I thought why not just create a web version for this app like it would be easy 🤷♂️ right? So then I started searching on how to create it and I was so excited that I finished this full project in 3 Hours.
But how do I get so many views?
"It's simple, create a niche product for a niche audience"
Some sources from where I get most traction 👇
✅ Google - Simple SEO (HTML TAGS ONLY)
✅ Notion - Mostly from apption (but added a secret sauce 😎)
✅ Direct - People bookmark the site and directly open the website
Lessons to learn
The number one lesson I learned from this is that no problem is big or small.
"If you truly solve a problem, you will definitely be rewarded"
Hey, Indie hackers thanks for reading this
I hope you found this useful, Want to see behind the scenes or how I build things? then make sure to follow me
Great job on the growth. I am still a bit perplexed though...why would someone go to a web page to check a clock when they can do so on their mobile phone and even on the computer task bar ?? Is there something I am missing ??
it’s not just a clock, people use it to just showcase the desk setups, or open this clock another monitor while doing another work etc.
Hmmm..OK. If you can such a great a job with something like that you should build something which has mass appeal. Just saying...
What does the current revenue look like?
Why the .tk domain?
Got it for free lol 🤷♂️
Sorry, but what is the use case here? Why do I need to go to a website to have a full-screen digital clock?
also there is typo (choosing) on https://flipclock.tk/upgrade.html
it’s not just a clock, people use it to just showcase the desk setups, or open this clock another monitor while doing another work etc.
Thank you for the typo
Whats the tech stack used?
HTML, CSS, JS
Hey Tammay, I love to do a text-interview with you on your growth strategies to feature FlipClock on MarIndie if you are interested.
I currently have close to 2k subscribers that I would love to introduce your story to.
Cheers!
sounds good, let’s chat here https://twitter.com/tanmay_makode_
Just dropped you a DM and a follow on Twitter. Cheers!
@TanmayM impressive!
Want to know the secret sauce 😎👀?
(most important step)
Do tell..this is interesting