Steph Smith

I'm Steph. I've grown products like Trends.co to millions in ARR and sold 6 figures in my own. AMA!

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Hey Product Hunt In 2018, I decided to learn to code. Inspired by other creators who had become completely financially independent, I set out on my creator journey and started building my own products. Fast forward four years and I now have a profitable book Doing Content Right that has sold over $125k in ~1 year and a new course, Doing Time Right that's on pace to do the same.Along the way, I've worked full-time, most recently at The Hustle leading up their Trends product, which was acquired by HubSpot in February! I'm always dabbling in something โ€” whether it's on Twitter, my blog, or my new podcast The Sh** You Don't Learn in School. Happy to answer questions on basically any topic, but here's what most people ask me about: - Creating while working FT - Growth and marketing - Content (and doing it right! ๐Ÿ˜‰) - Remote Work/Nomading (I spent ~4 years on the road) - Learning to code - Trends! Product Hunt was at the very beginning of my creator journey, so I'm excited to support any fellow creators on theirs. I'll be in and out answering questions all day, so fire away! ๐Ÿš€ PS: I created a code (KITTY) for both of my products Doing Content Right and Doing Time Right that'll get you 50% off. ๐Ÿ˜บ
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Hey There, What inspired your niche?
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Great Stuff!
Hi Steph, that's one hell of a journey. Btw, I'm Senthil, Content Strategist (but I dabble across a lot of works since we're a relatively small and young team) at Wylo - an interest-based social network. And we just launched our product on PH - https://www.producthunt.com/post.... I believe it's got nearly all the info about Wylo. Would you like to take a few minutes, look into our handles (mentioning them below), and share your thoughts on how we could improve in terms of content and where to focus more? Since we're a community-driven platform, we're focussing on sharing valuable content relevant to select communities (startups, books, and movies) for now. Our prime focus has been Instagram till now. We're planning to focus equally on Twitter and probably YouTube too. https://www.instagram.com/wyloapp/ https://twitter.com/Wylo_app https://www.youtube.com/channel/... Do share your two cents on what we could do better and how. :) Thanks!
Abdullah Al Mallak
Thanks for the AMA, pretty inspiring to say the least. I am actually on my first steps to begin a life of fully online income (dabbling with no-code e-com, and other online projects: i.e. blog, personal branding scaling with E-book & a crash course on mindset) moved to Greece, and am about to have my first baby boy with my wife. Major changes but that's how one's must be LIVING their life, instead of a monotonous cubical for 30-40 years. I am actually wondering if I should get a job following your suit here, I am a polymath, I am always up to something but I also have a short span of attention, that scares me a little that I have to get a job to keep me focused, wondering what's your take on this?
kanika kumar
Hey Steph! Thanks for the AMA! I am a marketing professional and I am looking to create quality content for my clients. I am hoping to learn the basics of SEO to improve my content and website. Is there any book or online course you could recommend which will make me smart at SEO. ( I am not looking to be an SEO professional)
Johannes Gรผntner
Hi Steph. Great story you're telling! Thank you so much for the AMA! I'm currently struggling to market my MicroSaaS. I invested a lot of time into features and designing everything. Now I'm not sure how to promote everthing without coming of as too "markety". Do you have any helpful resources or advice on how to start marketing/content-marketing without any marketing-background? Thanks, Johannes
Dayo
Hi Steph! What's your #1 country to travel to as a novice digital nomad and why? Thanks for doing the AMA!
Lalit Tyagi
Great to connect here Steph, Amazing to see a great entrepreneur and so humble and ready to help the fellow entrepreneurs. What isyour suggestion to launch a product and mostly in marketing part to acquire customers.