Been a long time lurker on this sub, just like to share what got my little passion project over 20k views in a month:
IndieHustle.co is a little site where I interview indie founders on how they started and grew their businesses.
What worked:
HackerNews
- Leaving comments and engaging with related posts on HN has been beneficial. Although I did not have any posts or comments that went viral, but I got a healthy amount of traffic coming in from this source regularly.
Tried a number of #ShowHN posts but didn’t get more than 3 upvotes on these posts.
- Similar to HN, I used the same strategy and it has helped, but not as much as the traffic I am getting from HN.
- Did had a post went viral on r/Entrepreneur 3 months ago, but no traffic has come in from this source for the last month
What didn’t:
Twitter / X
Spending time and effort to tweet and engage with others on Twitter has not borne any fruits yet. Less than 1k traffic is from Twitter, although I do see some potential coming from using the #buildinpublic hashtag in my tweets.
Next steps
Will continue to work on Twitter as I feel this channel has potential, but will be a slow and arduous process.
Looking forward to work on LinkedIn and SEO next for IndieHustle.co, if anyone has any tips, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading, and thank you to this sub for giving me the motivation to start my own r/SideProject!