Regarding the marketing person - I guess you can try both. I myself haven't had good luck with marketing people, although in recent times I've found one lady which is great at what she does. Unfortunately way too expensive for me at the stage my apps are. And I've also struggled a lot to find a qualified marketer willing to partner on a product.

One thing I can say - if you've grown organic traffic via SEO, it'll probably be hard to engage with existing customers since you don't know much about them.

What has worked from my experience: if you've defined a proper ICP figure out where they hang out - forums, subreddits, etc. Try to look for places where they could potentially be talking about the problem (if you can't find such a post then maybe make one yourself to kick it off). And figure out a way to engage in a conversation with them, provide value without selling the product and just ask for 5 minutes of their time. It's a very slow process until you figure it out, but once you do the data is valuable and allows you to build the product based on it.

It seems like while you do manage to capture traffic, you fail to convert it fully - based on retention rates you're posting, they're not getting the outcome they thought they'd get based on your landing page/s. If that's the case it might be time to explore what other pains they have, revisit old ones and make sure you're solving those, and also communicating everything to them framed as outcomes they'll get by subscribing.

I'm a web developer myself, building products in my free time all the time. Let me know if you'd want to chat, it's pretty lonely out here :D

What if you could sell the data for each argument? That might be valuable to LLM labs, because then you can essentially guarantee that every single argument you provide is human checked, and you could accumulate a large DB of those. Of course you'll never be able to capture every single argument possible, but it's rather a mechanism that would allow incremental improvement with time. But codifying logic and natural language is a very nice idea.

I've came across the mantra that if you're not technical you won't succeed as a tech startup.

Well I'd say that's far from the truth. Many examples show us the opposite, and as development becomes more accessible we'll be seeing more of that.

Recently I've been working on a solution aimed at people who want to get their product built and wanted to share it here.

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I'm doing market research on startup founders so that I can understand and serve their needs better. The form is closed questions only and would take 1 minute of your time. I'd appreciate it if you filled it out.

Thanks!

Generally I think it’s all about the buildup after a certain amount of time of working in your industry. And not only 9-5 working but just doing interesting projects and attracting such likeminded people.

Edit: Thanks for that last sentence you wrote. I've noticed I tend to come up with simple stuff for the most part, then I think hmmm... maybe this can become a blog post idea, and then I usually think - it's too simple, obvious, etc. I supposed that the best thing to do is for me to start writing about those and then see where it leads me to.

The problem is that I have a hard time coming up with ideas. I have some ideas for blog posts, but they're quite different from each other. And even if I don't take that into account they're really not a lot, like a single digit number.

I don't think I'm not creative, it's just that for me creativity works in a totally misterious way.

I wonder what's been your journey for your blog, twitter, etc. Did you read some book which helped you with that? Or did a lightning strike that made you realize how to get content ideas?

Most importantly I want to develop a framework with which I can come up with ideas consistently so I can produce content in a consistent manner. I'd like to think I'm decent at writing, in fact I actually love it, so that won't be an issue.

Best, calculated

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A friend of mine is looking for a remote internship opportunity for the summer.

I am not familar with the places one has to look for one so I came to ask you if you know any good platforms he can sign up for or if you are awareT of any concrete offers.

He's based in Sofia, Bulgaria but he's studying CS in Linz, Austira right now. He's looking to work with C#, Java primarily. He's already gone through a 3 year bootcamp where he learned C#.

Thank you.

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