Hi,
I launched a side project called Pinwoot (https://pinwoot.com) exactly 30 days ago on hackernews and reddit.
Pinwoot is a simple user discovery tool for Pinterest users to grow their pinterest following organically but quickly and find like minded pinterest users.<p>After 30 days of launch, I managed to get 7000+ active users, about 100 paying users and $6129 in revenues.<p>My learnings :
1. Build your first main feature really well
2. Dont launch with 100s of features, keep the product simple
3. Make sure to have some influencers on your board as users from day one and make them super happy
4. Use tweet button very smartly - this is make or break up for your side project
5. Dont hurry up into making money, let your users ask you for more feature and then roll out paid features.<p>I invite your feedback and suggestions on how to further increase my user base. People are loving the product (you may search for pinwoot on twitter) but somehow, none of the good blogs are covering it. Any contacts or suggestions, most welcome.<p>My name is Alexander and can be reached at alexander@pinwoot.com
"After 30 days of launch, I managed to get 7000+ active users, about 100 paying users and $6129 in revenues"<p>Wow! That's brilliant! How did you manage to convert 100 users to pay >$60 in less than 30 days? Can you tell me more about it?
Congratulations - looks slick. I don't have a pintrest account so I can't really try it out or give you meaningful feedback, but good luck going forward.