Ubidrop is growing fast, reacting to customer feedback & preparing to launch
What happened on October 2022
On the last Friday of each month, I am sharing with you what happened this month while growing my Internet business and building internet products.
TL;DR – What happened on October 2022
Released Ubidrop early beta
Let customer feedback lead product roadmap
Technical difficulties building Ubidrop
Preparing for Product Hunt launch
Here is what happened (in detail)
🛝 Released Ubidrop early beta
About a month ago, I posted a video about a small app I made, to share files from my Android to my Mac seamlessly. People seemed to love the app and wanted to try it out. It seems like a lot of people shared the same problem as I had for years. Android and Macs don’t play nice together. And Ubidrop (my app) makes sharing files super simple.
This month I decided to double down on Ubidrop and let people play with it, so that I can grow it while receiving feedback.
It was great to be working on an app with a lot of interest from people. I was releasing updates and people would immediately respond to them.
Many people reached out to me saying how much they wanted to try out Ubidrop, but it wouldn’t work on their device. This was great as we were able to debug the app on the fly, I could fix the app for them and push an update. I believe that everyone loves having their voices heard and showing through actions that you are listening is powerful.
👥 Let customer feedback lead product roadmap
I focused the roadmap 100% on the feedback I received.
People didn’t like having all their files on the desktop, so I added an option to change it. Others wanted to share bigger files. Also, the app is now available on the Google Play Store as people kept asking for it.
Listening to people’s feedback, questions and comments, led to the creation of the landing page of Ubidrop. I added an FAQ after all the questions I have received while building the app and sharing it on social, such as how the app works or what the difference to other file sharing apps is.
😰 Technical difficulties building Ubidrop
But it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. I have been building Android apps for almost 10 years, but building desktop apps is something new to me. It took a few takes in order to be able to do some basic stuff I would normally do with Android. I am super happy that the app is getting better almost daily.
An other thing that took me more time than I wanted was creating releases. Every time I wanted to publish an update with everyone, I had to wait almost 10 minutes for my computers to create all versions of the app (M1, Intel and Android). I think two weeks after the original release, I ended up automating this process using CI, which took me even more time.
I wish I could be only be spending time on improving the product, but some things are needed in order to keep moving fast.
One awesome moment this week was someone purchasing 10 Ubidrop licences for their business. Ubidrop in a business context is not something that had occurred to me, so it was a pleasant surprise!
Also, today I spotted the first tech blog writing about Ubidrop. Wild!
🚀 Preparing for Product Hunt launch
I would like to invite you all to the official Ubidrop launch on Monday, October 31st!
On Product Hunt, products compete with one another to be #1 for the day (or even #1 of the month). Each product climbs higher with the more number of votes it receives and interest from people.
Everyone is welcome, and you support is highly appreciated 🙏
💰 Revenue & stats
How much money I made from my projects this month
Composables.co: $ 25 (or $ 93.29 MRR total)
View to Composable: $ 50
Ubidrop: $ 388
That’s all for this month. Thanks for reading this update.
Until next time,
– Alex