Put your product link in the second tweet, not the first

David… Reddit, SEO, and then X, Twitter. To this day, we haven't used any paid channels at all. We launched our MVP on Product Hunt in week one and then made our first $50 MRR from that launch. Reddit drove the initial traction where regularly getting 400 upvotes, and that's really pushed us from $50 to 1k MRR. At the same time, we focused on high-intent SEO keywords like 'alternatives to X', 'how much does X cost', with X being our competitors' names.

DavidAround day 50 of building in public, X started working, then things went parabolic. In one or two weeks on X, we made about 20k MRR by just dogfooding the product. One trick I learned from Rob Hallam at SuperX was to always add your product's link in the second tweet to squeeze more attention and get that extra traffic to your website.

Pat WallsYeah, it's cool that you build in public, you did all the things the right way. But what I really think is cool about this and one of the reasons why I wanted to bring you on the channel is that it kind of follows this copy-paste strategy that I've been seeing a lot of people, especially indie developers like you, execute on really well. You find a really growing market, and you simply execute them, but you do something just a little bit …