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How Tiiny.host Grew

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How did Tiiny.host grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Tiiny.host grew primarily through organic SEO efforts, including creating SEO-optimized landing pages targeting specific use cases, which led to significant increases in organic signups and traffic over time. In addition to SEO, Tiiny.host utilized community marketing channels such as Reddit, Slack groups, and Indie Hackers to engage early users and gain feedback. The company also leveraged Twitter and YouTube tutorials to attract users and create additional organic acquisition channels.

Channels

12 channels · grouped by how Tiiny.host grows

  • SEO

    · 8 mentions · 8 sources
    “However, I learned that 80% of our traffic ultimately came from just one - SEO. Fairly early on into our marketing phase, I followed an SEO strategy used by other SaaS tools. This involved researching relevant keywords for the product that is not very competitive to rank for and then creating “la...”
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    “We’re now cemented on Gatsby’s website and starting to see us rank for relevant keywords.”
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    “I launched Tiiny over 14 months ago but it's only been in the past 4 months that I've seen real, organic growth. This is attributed to SEO work implemented over 9 months ago (yes, SEO takes that long!).”
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    “How have we marketed ourselves? SEO, SEO & SEO. That's our main channel for users. We rank highly for terms like "host zip file" & "html hosting".”
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    “The SEO seeds he'd been planting for months finally started ranking. Signups jumped to 150 per day. Then he built PDF hosting.. a feature that took two days to code. It ranked #1 on Google. Growth doubled overnight.”
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    “He'd been writing SEO-optimized landing pages targeting specific use cases — "how to host a PDF online," "simple web hosting," "share HTML file as link." It took Google six months to start ranking these pages, and when they did, organic signups exploded.”
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    “TinyHost has grown to over 400 k ARR in the past three years, almost entirely via SEO.”
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    “I applied to YC. Rejected. Tried to raise from Angels. Ghosted. Still scaled to a $500K+ ARR SaaS with: - Reddit - SEO - Twitter Just keep moving forward.”
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  • Video content

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “YouTube tutorials that rank on Google. Short, low-production tutorial videos like "how to share a PDF as a link" rank in Google's video carousel even when the website doesn't rank for the same keyword. This created a second organic acquisition channel at near-zero cost.”
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    “For YouTube, we’re creating tutorials for junior developers but also connect with tiiny.host.”
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    “I remember putting on Reddit and had it like a few, first 100 people use it on Reddit, which was super cool.”
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  • Community marketing

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “Elston credits the Ramen Club community for helping him reach $40K MRR. He was also a regular on Indie Hackers and spoke at TEDxHanoi about indie hacking.”
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    “Slack groups are the hidden gems of the world today. They’re like speakeasies - you can only be invited into them but once you’re in there’s a super supportive community of early users.”
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  • Word of mouth

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “Implicit virality. Every site hosted on Tiiny Host displays a ".tiiny.site" domain, creating natural backlinks and brand awareness. An embedded banner on hosted sites drives additional referral traffic back to the platform.”
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    “Another fan sent us this amazing email that - 1. Boosted our morale 2. Highlighted yet another use case we didn’t even realise existed.”
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  • Reddit

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “We cast a wide net and marketed to many major platforms in a sensible way. These included Indie Hackers, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit and Slack groups. Its’ very important to not spam these communities but engage with them on their own terms. For example, Redditors love freebies and giving feedback o...”
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    “I applied to YC. Rejected. Tried to raise from Angels. Ghosted. Still scaled to a $500K+ ARR SaaS with: - Reddit - SEO - Twitter Just keep moving forward.”
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  • Twitter

    · 1 mention
    “I applied to YC. Rejected. Tried to raise from Angels. Ghosted. Still scaled to a $500K+ ARR SaaS with: - Reddit - SEO - Twitter Just keep moving forward.”
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  • Tik Tok Ads

    · 1 mention
    “He created dedicated landing pages for each phrase and waited — sometimes 6+ months — for rankings to kick in. Today, those pages generate 20.6 million impressions per year.”
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  • Business Mascot

    · 1 mention
    “I did everything from posts on Reddit, YouTube videos, Slack communities, directories, Twitter, SEO.”
    medium

  • Partnerships

    · 1 mention
    “Find your community — Elston credits Ramen Club for helping him reach $40K MRR”
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  • Facebook Community

    · 1 mention
    “Slack groups are the hidden gems of the world today. They’re like speakeasies - you can only be invited into them but once you’re in there’s a super supportive community of early users.”
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  • Product Hunt

    · 1 mention
    “We then listed on Product Hunt. Our Product Hunt launch started with us hidden from the Front Page. We then shared our post to our network (Twitter, WhatsApp, Slack, Indie Hackers etc.) and gradually saw ourselves climb the ranks to the Front Page and 1500+ visitors.”
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  • Open-source community

    · 1 mention
    “We even engaged with the Open Source community through GatsbyJs.”
    high

How 2,616 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Tiiny.host’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68% ◀
  • Social media
    57% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    57% ◀
  • Email
    47%
  • Community
    32% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    31% ◀
  • Partnerships
    29% ◀
  • Events
    24%
  • Paid ads
    23% ◀
  • Press/PR
    17%
  • Outbound/Sales
    15%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    8%
  • Brand Authenticity
    2%
  • Customer interviews
    2%
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