I want to cover 2 things, before I get caught up in thought;
- My feelings releasing modergator today and getting no new users
- What to do next with modergator
My feelings releasing a project and getting no users
It sucks. And its basically the worst outcome. And its what I expected to happen.
Our marketing plan was an after thought:
And the results, of course, are nothing. Maybe 10 people came to our site.
Even though I 100% expected this, it still sucks.
It leaves me with a feeling of what to build next? I guess let’s drop the heading in here.
What To Do Next With Modergator
I am feeling that some internal learning has happened here and I want to put it into words.
We built something for 2 months, and in the end, no one cared to use it. Of course it was barely a release, 2.5 posts, but I also felt the post headlines didn’t really make a splash.
I am tempted to next build things that make the product easier to use, but I’m realizing that that’s a “later in the funnel” problem. I can’t even get people to click on my links.
I need to build something, even if its not super streamlined at the start, that
GRABS FUCKING HEADLINES.
Modergator isn’t a simple content moderation api,
Modergator is the API that moderates all your content and learns from what it moderates so that you’re dinky little dev team doesn’t need to hire anyone.
I think this is a mistake I’ve been making, I see the vision, but don’t work on that right away. I work on the smaller low hanging fruits first, which aren’t exciting and don’t bring new users in.
That’s why SkinTheory took so long to develop and never became the cool, Solve your own acne with your own data, dream I wanted for it.
I need to build the pure vision, the exciting stuff that gets people in the door, even if its a bit jank.
My next experiment: