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Approach
- I went on ProductHunt to look at Top Trending product to copy
Hmm the first app Senpai looks interesting. Get answers from a verified startup expert!
Oh wow!
Instant consultation service sounds like a good idea!
Time to brainstorm!
Ideas
I went to Google JamBoard to brainstorm
Time limit: 5 min.
Goal: Come up with 20 ideas.
Who are the different people we can adapt Senpai for?
Categorising these ideas
Funniest idea:
Best idea:
Most feasible idea:
Choosing idea
Looking at the ton of crap generated above. I decided to go with the Most Feasible Idea.
I have limited time and limited resources to explore stuff outside of my industry.
Let's just go with helping cs students find internships!
Name
Senpai is a good name. Let's just copy is and call it laoshi ่ๅธ ๏ผTeacher in chinese๏ผ
Landing page
I am going to copy this website.
Slogan: Trying to find a tech internship & don't know what to do?
Building landing page
Domain: laoshi.30apps.me
I used convertkit to build a simple waitlist collection page.
Marketing
- Launch on ProductHunt
It's a very plain producthunt page but well... We all gotta start somewhere.
- Launch on NUS Computing Grads Telegram group
This is a ~1000 member Telegram Group in NUS containing computing students
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Reflections
Time taken: 5 hrs
My thoughts
- Pretty lame ass idea
- Subsequent launch time should be faster once I get familiar with the flow
- But well whateva ๐คทโโ๏ธ. There's still 29 more apps to go ๐
Results
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- I can't believe it! There are actually people who upvoted the product hunt and joined the waitlist!
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