shakermaker83

I've been having fun building out a link-in-bio tool / micro-site builder in my spare time. It started out as just something that a solo-dev could build without a lot of experience... but it's turned out to be more complicated and interesting than I thought! Right now I'm working on getting embeds and other 'fancier' types of blocks built out. Also… if any SEO wizards are lurking, I would love tips on getting more Google impressions/CTR, lol. If you want to check it out (would love some feedback!):

https://soc.bio

I think the reality is no one really knows. You’ll hear things like post on socials, blog/content marketing, build a presence on Reddit…

But to me it seems like the lottery. You try enough things, in enough of the right places, for long enough and eventually something sticks and you get some traction. Most people don’t stick with it long enough to find something that connects for them though.

Ideally you’re working on a product where you already have some legitimacy, thus avoiding the cold start problem.

Thanks for checking it out! That’s such a clear improvement to the landing page that I’m a little embarrassed that I missed it,lol. I’ll have to update that later tonight.

A really simple link-in-bio service:

https://soc.bio/

Mostly just wanted to learn Django and Vue and see if I could get something working online. Have a handful of free users, so that’s kind of exciting!

A little more context of it helps.

By day I’m an actuary. I went to school for math and computer science. I know Python, Django, Vue… am comfortable with pandas, SQL, experimenting with streamlit. All of my industry knowledge is in large insurance companies that have their own internal IT departments. The exact opposite of who will go for a scrappy solo developer.

But, I love solving problems, and have always wanted to run / own my own business or app. So this is me reaching outside myself for the genius of the masses ;-)

Any insights, tips for getting outside that sphere a little and finding problems that people want/need solved would be amazing.

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