Advice for SaaS founders, Building Twitter audience, 2167 subscribers with 1 post in 48 hours

4th issue of Indieletters.com newsletter.

📈 Growth & Sales

The Indie Hacker Guide to building a Twitter Audience
Step 1 Choose 3-5 topics to tweet about
Step 2: Remove all B/S you are tweeting out already
Step 3: Follow the right people. Follow your competitors. Then follow their followers as these are the people who have already shown interest in a company similar to yours. Install this extension to see the follower number of every twitter profile without going to their profile.
Step 4: Tweet smart, not often. Make a Twitter list of influencers in your niche and start engaging with them. Try to comment on their tweets on a daily basis.
Step 5: What to tweet about
Don't copy/paste quotes everyone has already seen a million times. Instead, share your ups and downs but always inspire, share your revenue numbers, and what it took to get you there. You can use Hypefury to schedule your tweets and automatically retweet your best tweets. it also offers many advanced features.
Step 6: Leverage your existing audience
If you are an indie maker, create an affiliate program for your Indie project. Send all your customers a message saying you have an affiliate program. Tapaffiliate and Rewardful are the most affordable affiliate program for indie makers.

Trending Widget

Try adding a widget that shows users trending posts/products. This gives a user somewhere to go if they decide the current page they're on isn't relevant, rather than losing that user forever. Many users will come back purely to check what's trending - popular sites like Product Hunt and Reddit are built around this mechanism.

👩👦 Community Building

Best 3rd Party Tool For Managing Social Profiles?

Buffer is the best one. Its distinguishing features are a dedicated extension, a bookmarklet, and feature to throw content in a queue.

🌈Product Development

Advice for SaaS founders

1. Always give a way to try your product before purchasing it. Free plan, trial period, etc.
2. Pricing: Start high and then go low (if needed).
3. Add all the payment methods you can. The more the better (not only stripe or PayPal). An example could be accepting bank transfers. Is not a big deal having a bank account in the EU or the US.
4. Never restrict too much the free plan (if you have one), users need to play around your product with all the features included. If you want to push users to subscribe, try to restrict other stuff (like the number of users per account, quotas of X, etc.)

💋 Design and UX

Top Design Pickle alternatives…

Design Pickle ($399/mo), ManyPixels ($399/mo), Flocksy ($349/mo), Penji ($369/mo), Kapa99 ($399/mo), Kimp ($389/mo), Pebbled ($99/mo) For pros and cons, click the title.

🔥 No-Code

A list of no-code newsletters

Here are the 5 newsletters curated by an indie hacker. No code list, No code founders, Side project stack, No code report, and Automate all the things.

✌️ Self Improvement

Give other indie hackers one piece of advice

1. You Don't Get What You Deserve. You Get What You Negotiate.
2. The five-minute favor - "You should be willing to do something that will take you five minutes or less for anybody"
3. Talk to your customers, like they're family.
4. Focus on one project at a time
5. If you ask, you might get it.
   If you don't ask, you will not get it.
6. Never wrestle with a pig.
   You'll both get dirty (and the pig likes it).

💯 Productivity

Titans Journal Day 45: Timeboxing Tools

You can timebox your day by using Clockify and Trello together. Just start Clockify timer in the Trello cards when you start working on any task. And it's Free.

Dashboard to track all metrics

If you are opening a bunch of sites to see your stats and tired of it, then use Sunrisekpi (paid) or Snapboard (freemium) for getting a nice dashboard to track all stats. I started using Snapboard now. You can also build a custom app with Snapboard for integrating with other platforms.

🧠 Indie Hacker Reads

1. +2,167 new subscribers in 48 hours (one tactic you should try)
   Growth.design used R.L.L technique (Really Long List) invented by Brian Dean from Backlinko and published this blog post 101 Cognitive Biases & Principles That Affect Your UX that brought 2167 new subscribers. Read this blog post as it's trending on Indiehackers for more details. (123 likes)

2. How I'd grow Good Books

3. Share one useful link with indie hackers

4. How to legally avoid using Apple / Google IAP and paying a 30% fee?

👋 Thanks for Reading

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