Indie Hackers Vancouver November Meeting Notes 2019

Thanks for joining us on November 20, 2019 for another Indie Hackers Vancouver meetup!

💎 Sponsors 💎

Venue generiously provided by:
DevHub / Lighhouse Labs

Snacks for November & December meetups are provided by:
Outseta

⚡️ Lightning Talks / Discussions ⚡️

Podcasting Primer & Demo of Reaper (Recording Software)

Presented by Stefanni & Thiago, who host hexdevs

🗣 Group Discussion Topics 🗣

1. How to get free PR for your startup/project

Quotes from discussion:

“Just ask for it.”
“Find a blog or other resource and ask to be featured”
“Be a guest on a podcast”

Resources mentioned:

Haro - HARO provides journalists with a robust database of sources for upcoming stories and daily opportunities for sources to secure valuable media coverage.
Sourcebottle
Twitter #PRRequest
Twitter #Journorequest
Muckruck (paid)
Gorcana (paid)

2. Getting first customers for SaaS

Quotes & ideas shared:

Do things that don’t scale.
Have one-on-one meetings, sales calls, etc with potential clients.
Identify your ideal clients and invite them to a paid dinner & networking event. Use this opportunity to have 1-on-1 conversations, ask questions, and make sales. It’s an expensive streategy, but it might work well.

3. How to have/host an EPIC X-Mas Business Networking party

[Sorry, I didn’t capture these responses]

Jetbrains Software Raffle

Congratulations to Max for winning the Jetbrains raffle.

Jetbrains has generously provided a 1-year license for any of the following Jetbrain Apps: AppCode, CLion, DataGrip, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PhpStorm, PyCharm, ReSharper, ReSharper C++, ReSharper Ultimate, ReSharper Ultimate + Rider Pack, Rider, RubyMine, or WebStorm.