I was granted $5,000 from Product Hunt!

Hello everyone! It’s me again, Tony. 👋

This month, Sep 2021, BlackMagic.so helped me won a $5,000 grant from Product Hunt 🥳.

In this issue, I’ll share some tips for launching your product on Product Hunt, along with other updates.

💵 $5,000 is a lot of money!

Yes, it is! At least for me! Besides the money, Product Hunt also sent me some nice swags 👇

Product Hunt Maker Grant Goodies

Here is how it happened:

– July 22nd: I launched Real-time Twitter Banner on Product Hunt

– September 10th: I received this email

The first email from Product Hunt

– After 5 minutes of carefully inspect the email to make sure it’s not a scam. I replied and accept the grant! 😍

– We spend the next few days exchanging information:

• Bank account details

• Sign an agreement on DocuSign

• Fill out my address to receive the goodies

– 29th September: I received the goodies! ❤️

The money hasn’t come yet, but I’m sure it will! I’m still waiting for it everyday ⌛👀.

💁 My top 3 tips to launch on Product Hunt

In 2021, I have launched 3 products. It gets better every time! 👇

My products launched in 2021

If you plan to launch your product on Product Hunt. Here are my top 3 tips:

1. Know the technical!

Here is the ultimate guide to learn about how to post on Product Hunt: How to Launch on Product Hunt

Give it a read before launching your product, you will learn a lot about how to make your product listing the most optimal and beautiful! ✨

2. Warm-up the launch

Make an announcement 24 → 48 hours before the launch.

Let your friends, family, coworkers, Twitter/Facebook followers, private group chats know about it.

Don’t be afraid to send them a DM asking for support, it’s a special occasion, people are willing to help! (just don’t do it every week/month, haha)

3. It’s ok to launch again with a new major feature of the same product!

When you add a new major feature to your product, you can launch it again! The Real-time Twitter Banner was a new feature of BlackMagic.so, which I launched 2 months before.

Even with the same product, it’s generally accepted that you can launch again with major updates after 6-12 months. But it has to be a major update. Use this to your advantage! 😄

💬 I did an AMA on Indie Hackers

I was invited to do an AMA on Indie Hackers (IH) about BlackMagic.so. It has received 47 votes with 40 comments, the most popular post I have ever made on IH.

If you haven’t seen it yet, here is the link.

🎁 New templates on BlackMagic.so...

If you haven’t seen the new banner templates yet, here they are: Crypto & Stock price chart!

Show live Crypto & Stock price chart on your Twitter banner

Try it out now → https://blackmagic.so/real-time-banner/

This feature has been requested for a while, I finally got time to get to it. You can select from the 4 templates I have in place for crypto & stock price.

I used CryptoWat.ch API for the crypto price and finnhub.io API for the stock price. They are “mostly free” are easy to use. If you want to build something around crypto & stock price chart, do take a look!

📈 Stats & Revenue

BlackMagic.so Stats & Revenue

Not much growth this month. I have some new customers, but some also churned.

To be fair, the most significant growth in revenue was during the Product Hunt launch. It helped to bring a lot of new paid users.

BlackMagic.so stats in September 2021:

• $326 MRR

• 5,974 Registered users:

• 3,073 Active users:

• 2,021 Profile Progress Bar users

• 319 Sleep Indicator users

• 1,550 Real-time banner users

🙌 That's all!

I realized this issue is all about BlackMagic.so, what a coincidence!

In October, I’m working on new exciting updates for DevUtils.app, stay tuned!

Until next time! 👊