Grant Harrison

I launched NotchMind, a Mac app that turns the MacBook notch into a small hub, as a solo developer with under 500 followers on X. It finished #16 for the day with 76 points, and I'm at about 20 sales so far.

The traffic surprised me:

• X, where I post the most: the tracked link brought 1 vote.

• YouTube: my demo video has about 4.6K views, and around 73% of them came from YouTube recommending it for free. I only spent about $11 on a promotion.

• Reddit, Hacker News and Indie Hackers all stopped me because my accounts were new. One flagged me as spam, one flagged my post, and one wouldn't let me post.

I'm trying to work out where to put my time next, so two specific questions for makers with a small audience:

I've noticed something across a few threads I've posted here.

The ones where I jump back in and reply to early comments seem to stay active longer, more people join in, more replies stack up.

But then I've also seen threads that got barely any response from the original poster and still climbed anyway, just from other people replying to each other.

So now I'm wondering if this is actually a signal that matters, or just something that feels true because we notice it when it happens.

Product Hunt s Ship Faster Day is coming on September 30th!

The idea is pretty fun: launch something, get feedback, and then build and ship the requested improvements as fast as you can.

With only two days left, I started wondering:

How do you prepare yourself for a day like this?