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How Talknotes Grew

AI voice note app turning thoughts into organized tasks.

How did Talknotes grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Talknotes grew through launching on Product Hunt, which generated significant early revenue and exposure. The founder also leveraged organic social media, including Twitter and directories, to attract free users and subscriptions. Advertising became the primary acquisition channel after launch, despite limited success with SEO and free tools.

Channels

10 channels · grouped by how Talknotes grows

  • Organic social media

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “And then I discovered, you know, the indie hacking community on Twitter. So I created, technically I had a Twitter account, but from like 10 years ago, no followers or anything. So I just used that. And yeah, I started posting on Indie Hacker, you know, talking with people. And then I, like I kee...”
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    “I ended up launching on some directories + Twitter (https://twitter.com/nico_jeannen/status/1691035753088991232). I got over 1000 free users and 7 yearly subscriptions in a week, so I knew there was potential.”
    high

  • Product Hunt

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “But when I launched on product and I think I made like, I don't know, 4,000 or something in one or two weeks. So then it's really powerful.”
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    “2 months later, I launched on ProductHunt and it ended up as the product of the day and reached $1,000 MRR!”
    high

  • Pay Per Click Advertising

    · 1 mention
    “After I launched on directories, the #1 acquisition channel has been advertising. I tried to make SEO work, but it just didn't take off for me. I think I only made 3 sales from the blog posts I wrote. I also tried free tools that generate plenty of traffic but don’t convert at all. It costs me $5...”
    high

  • Online Community

    · 1 mention
    “I create a community, a discord, this you can replicate, it will take you years.”
    high

  • Reddit

    · 1 mention
    “And yeah, then I tried to run a bit of, I think ads on Reddit. I think I got one sale like that and completely stopped.”
    high

  • Building in public

    · 1 mention
    “Mark making ship fast, because he shipped, he shipped a lot, he was very public about it. So even like, there are tons of people trying to copy him, but no one can do like even 10% of what he does, because he, like he has the advantage, he's known for that, you know, and that's not something you ...”
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  • Open-source community

    · 1 mention
    “everything I'm doing on Cabo is like open source. If you want to become a competitor of me, it's very easy, you copy paste everything. I don't hide it, you know, but you can do it if you want. The problem is like I am in this for 10 years, like I am doing mobile apps, since I code and I know this...”
    high

  • Advertising on social media

    · 1 mention
    “I was even doing like Facebook ads for it.”
    high

  • Twitter

    · 1 mention
    “I ended up launching on some directories + Twitter (https://twitter.com/nico_jeannen/status/1691035753088991232). I got over 1000 free users and 7 yearly subscriptions in a week, so I knew there was potential.”
    high

  • Partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “my best marketing in Capgo is I do plug-in for free for Capacitor and everywhere I put like, hey, if you like. it, you can use also Capgo. And that's it. That's basically my main marketing is doing like, I find a way to act myself in marketing by just coding, which the code become the marketing i...”
    high

How 2,707 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Talknotes’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68%
  • Social media
    60% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    57%
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    34% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    32%
  • Partnerships
    31% ◀
  • Paid ads
    24% ◀
  • Events
    24%
  • Press/PR
    17%
  • Outbound/Sales
    16%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    9%
  • Product expansion
    2%
  • Influencer partnerships
    2%
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