The Daily Ship - Dashboard mockup. Used Claude (Opus 4.6) to help me visualize the app. HTML and CSS. Took about 30 minutes. I have limited Figma experience so this was a quick alternative to get the layout right before coding. What tools do you use for quick mockups?

1 hour a day is maintenance pace. 2 hours a day is progress pace.

3/ Launch platforms - make the most of your moment. Your product page does the selling, not the product. Product Hunt, Hacker News, BetaList, Indie Hackers, Peerlist, Uneed, Fazier. Pick 3-4 platforms that fit your audience and plan each launch properly. A clear one-liner, clean visuals, a short demo video under 60 seconds, and a punchy tagline. Timing matters. Product Hunt resets at 12:01am PST. Launch then to get a full 24 hours on the leaderboard. Tuesday to Thursday perform best. Avoid Mondays and weekends. Try not to cold launch. Build a waitlist for a few weeks beforehand. Tell them exactly when and where. Your first hour of traction decides a lot. Share the story behind the build. Why you made it, what problem you were solving, what you learned. People upvote humans, not products. A good launch brings traffic for a week. A great product keeps it. Don't burn out chasing #1. Use the spike to gather feedback, emails, and early users.

2/ Reddit - solve, then plug Find subreddits where your ideal users hangout. Build up karma and post history before you promote. Fresh accounts dropping links get flagged. Engage for a few days to a week first. Write posts that break down problems your product solves. Reply to others with value. Don't spam. Follow the 9:1 rule. 9 helpful posts for every 1 that mentions your product. It keeps your account healthy and your reputation intact. Find creative ways of teaching the reader something, then plug your tool when it actually fits. Save the posts that perform well. If a format worked once in r/SaaS, a tweaked version will probably work in r/Entrepreneur. You can adapt content from your blog posts too. You don't have to come up with a new idea every time. Pick a content format that works and make it your own.

1/ SEO - play the long game. SEO is a compounding asset, so your landing page needs to be more than just a sales pitch. Write genuinely useful blog content around the niche your products in. Publish consistently. One post a week for a year beats ten posts on launch month and then nothing. You can also guest post on established blogs in your space, this helps with backlinks. Attach free tools that attract people. Things like calculators, generators, converters. Make it relevant to your product. Nail the basics early. Fast load times, mobile friendly, clean URLs, proper meta tags. Google won't rank a slow site. But don't expect traffic overnight with this one. It's a slow burner.

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