Using the Twitter Ads glitch, How to Build in Public and Where to Promote AI Products
Happy New Year folks!
I’ve just moved to Chiang Mai, the capital of Digital Nomads to try to connect more with the indie hacker community and other nomads overall.
Sadly, I haven’t met that many indie hackers so far, but the density of digital nomads here makes it worth it.
Apart from being a beautiful, leafy, and laidback small town- it is incredibly social. In a single week, I’ve found myself bumping into new friends I’ve met at coworking and events more than a few times. Almost feels like being on a school camp where your friends are everywhere nearby, and just a message away from organizing an impromptu meetup.
If anyone is here locally, let’s connect and get a coffee.
🥦 How to Build in Public and attract users without being salesy
Famously used by people like
and Pieter Levels, building in public is probably the most common way Indie Hackers are marketing their products. is a master of this and shared his advice on how to do it well on my podcast.
🐦 Twitter ads glitch let you get clicks for fractions of a cent
There is a Twitter ads glitch that seems to be letting you get clicks for fractions of a cent. The basic idea is to run super broad ads at $1 per day for 4 days to take advantage of Twitter’s ad learning period.
I tried this following Edward Sturm’s tutorial, but it wasn’t conclusive (though the results were cheap). You might want to try before it is patched.
📈 How they got their first 10, 100 and 1,000 users
spoke to a bunch of Indie Hackers and discovered the 4 most commonly used channels to get their first users and summarized which was most important at each stage.He detailed the findings in this post.
🤖 Resource: 29 Directories to submit AI apps
Indie Hacker Fed (creator of Reddit audience research tool GummySearch) shared a useful list of AI directories where you can post your AI app. @veryayskiy on Twitter is continuing the trend by building his own list of app submission opportunities which you can follow here.
🔥 Opportunity: Li is roasting (reviewing) Indie Hacker’s pages for $140
Li Zeng, founder of UX consultancy Salt Studio, started roasting (kindly reviewing and improving) indie hacker pages on Twitter. Based in SF, she usually charges tens of $ for full design-improvement projects yet she started doing it on Twitter for at $35 a page and doubling every 5-7 people.
The price has now doubled twice. The results are great (see below), so if you want a single landing page reviewed you’d better contact her on Twitter asap.
