attn.design · B2C · inspiration library for creators
Post about your journey every day on X, LinkedIn, Reddit and YouTube at once
Little response, especially on X; Reddit needed heavy nurturing. One $99 sale in 30 days
What they did
What happened
- Stage
- pre-revenue
- Effort
- Daily posting for 30 days across 4 platforms
In their words
He built 100 apps and made $0. Can he fix it in 30 days?
… 100% for free. All right, let's catch up with Gaurabh and see how he did. So, we're here back 60 days later, and there's a reason for that. We had caught up in 30 days, but then you had let us know that you were almost on the the precipice of a breakthrough. So, I'd love if you could dive into that. Can you walk me through, once we got off the call last time, and then the next 30 days after that, what did those first 30 days look like for you?
GaurabhYeah, so when we got off the call, the first thing that we talked about was building out a cadence to post content out there so that I could build my own distribution. But I didn't have any specific channel that I was aligned with, so I posted everywhere. I had some followers on X. I had some followers on LinkedIn. I went and participated in Reddit forums. I also posted on- on YouTube. So, I did a lot of things, but I don't think I really got any value from it, especially X. You know, I didn't see too much response there. Uh, with Reddit forums, it takes a lot of work. There's a lot of nurturing, you have to be useful, you can't promote any product. And then, the part which was around speaking to customers, I did not have any connections in the space of content creation. I did manage to get some uh, conversations started, uh, but it wasn't that much that I would get so much inside. In reality, I managed to get one person to buy one of the products, Attention.design, was about $99. This was a big challenge for me, like really, uh, finding customers within the space.
HostSo, you're at the end of the 30 days. You've done something. You made a $100 payment. How did that feel? Where where was your head at at that point?
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- Post YouTube-style vlogs on LinkedIn, where your network already isVideo posts got far more impressions; 250 link clicks; led into $6,500 in 60 days
- Retarget from YouTubers to well-paid professionals who want to start making videosFounder says it made the product resonate; 5 pro customers at $99
- Cold-message prospects and send each a custom mockup or personal demoFounder says it won interest and feedback; revenue reached $6,500 by day 60
- Offer a free version to get people started, then sell a $99 pro plan5 paying customers at $99
- Sell a pricier agency plan so agencies can manage many creators in one placeUnexpectedly became the main earner; most of the $6,500 in 60 days (implied)
- Stop building new apps for 30 days and focus on selling twoWent from $0 across ~72 apps to $6,500 in 60 days
Tags: x, linkedin, reddit, youtube, build-in-public, daily-posting, spray-and-pray