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How Makerlog Grew

Community platform for indie makers to build in public

How did Makerlog grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Makerlog grew in part through its community, which its founder built and managed to over 10k members, and through posts in the maker's kitchen community where it started and early users picked it up before it launched publicly. It also built up to 500k+ monthly social media impressions, with the founder posting about the product on X and sharing progress under #buildinpublic. Launch activity included a Product Hunt launch and a Show HN post, and the product was growing after it was made public.

Channels

2 channels · grouped by how Makerlog grows

  • Online Community

    · 4 mentions · 4 sources
    “I started posting about it on the base in the maker's kitchen, right? And people started picking up on it, right? People wanted to try it. Some people were like, Oh, this is really cool. kept using it and using it and start building more features or whatnot. And eventually it was made public and ...”
    high
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    “I’m very excited to announce that Makerlog is joining forces with Maker’s Kitchen, and adopting it as the official chatroom community!... Makerlog started out there, and many of our initial users are cooks from the kitchen!”
    high
    “I’ve worked really hard building community and creating content, and seeing that get recognized was pretty fantastic.”
    high
    “Built and managed a worldwide community of over 10k members”
    high

  • Organic social media

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “And I started posting about it on the base in the maker's kitchen, right? And people started picking up on it, right? People wanted to try it. Some people were like, Oh, this is really cool. kept using it and using it and start building more features or whatnot. And eventually it was made public ...”
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    “Follow me on Twitter for sure - I write a lot of content there and tweet often about my hustle building Makerlog.”
    high
    “Built up to 500k+ monthly social media impressions”
    high

How 3,091 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Makerlog’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    66%
  • Social media
    64% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    58%
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    37% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    35%
  • Partnerships
    33%
  • Events
    25%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Outbound/Sales
    19%
  • Press/PR
    18%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    12%
  • Podcasting
    4%
  • Building in public
    3%
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