4 builders who never spoke to each other
Publish a gallery of what customers built
Showing the output settles the question that copy cannot: does this thing work outside a demo. A hand picked showcase of live customer work, a public dashboard running on real numbers, or a demo anyone can open without signing up all put the evidence where a prospect can inspect it. Spanning the impressive and the obscure makes the range look real rather than curated.
The method
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Publish a gallery of real products customers have built with your tool, spanning the impressive and the obscure, as proof that it works in production.
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Hand pick the best customer examples onto a showcase page, so a prospect can see what the product actually produces.
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Let people use a live demo of the product with no signup, and let customers make their own accounts public.
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Point doubters at a live public dashboard of your own numbers instead of asking them to take your word for it.
What it returned
Zue's Pegasus project gallery spans everything from a top-selling photo editing app in the app store to backend software for cannabis manufacturers.
Added a showcase page of selected active blogs running on MDX.one.
At Baremetrics the public demo, plus the Open Startups who exposed their own dashboards, ranked among the largest sources of both traffic and conversions.
Fathom's public demo shows real data from Paul Jarvis's own site, where search from Google is the leading referrer at roughly three times the next source, with no Google Analytics installed.
Sources
- July 2021: Retrospective & Income ReportBhanu Teja · bhanuteja.dev · What happened in July · undated
- Ideas I was right about | Corey HainesCorey Haines · corey.co · Idea: No code demo builder SaaS · 2024-06-11
- Does removing Google Analytics hurt SEO rankings? - Fathom AnalyticsPaul Jarvis · usefathom.com · The benefits of using Fathom Analytics instead of Google Analytics · 2020-05-04
- Solopreneurship: Year 7Cory Zue · coryzue.com · SaaS Pegasus · 2023-12-22
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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