Steven Macdonald

OKRsTool.com is a lightweight OKR platform built for startups. Free for 1-5 users. $30/ mo when you're ready to scale. Create your first OKR in seconds with AI and join 250+ orgs updating their goals on a weekly basis 👉 okrstool.com

@Pauline_Cx @feedbask_com Google is only returning your home page... interesting. It took us 9 months to go from new website to #1 ranking for OKR Software. Let me know if you want to exchange notes.

Small win of the day, but means a lot: 3 pages indexed. Actually, we've been struggled with @feedbask_com SEO for months. Google indexed only one page. I think we made a mistake with programmatic SEO a few months ago and Google punished us. So now I see we have three pages instead of one, I'm quite positive and optimistic we can do it and start to get more pages indexe

Yeah, agree. You need an audience for sure and then you need to communicate with them 6-8x the day of the launch via socials and email, like: - 48 hours before - 24 hours before - 3 hour countdown - 1 countdown to launch - it's live - 2 hours later update - 6 hours later update - Final hour update + last ask). I haven't been on PH. This is stuff I've read from 10-15 case studies on the topic. I definitely believe that luck plays a role, too. A busy PH day means 500+ votes to hit #1. Today is quiet and #1 has 250 votes.

@StevenMacd0nald Wow that’s a lot so you need an audience first ! What happened when your #1 ?

Is Product Hunt still worth launching on?

10 Things we shipped in Q1 👇🏻 - KPI Tracking - Performance reviews - Hierarchical grouping - Simple mode - Microsoft Teams integration - Kanban-style Initiatives - New onboarding - Annual plans - Improved UI for Teams - OKR reflection 😅 All have had a huge impact on MRR 🔥

New backlink found.. 🤩 Please be Forbes or DR80+... Nope 👇🏻

Excited to ship this today 👉🏻 OKRs Tool now Integrates with Microsoft Teams: Your OKRs can now live inside Teams - visible in the sidebar, delivered to your DMs every Monday, and accessible with a single slash command. okrstool.com/blog/okrs-micr…

We just crossed 1K weekly active teams using OKRs Tool 🔥 We've spent most of Q1 focusing on retention and weekly habits. It's paying off. We're on-track to 3X MRR in Q1.

Just shipped: Initiatives now runs on Kanban-style board 👇🏻

There's a lot of talk of $0-1M or even $0-10K.... but if you can go from $0-1K, pat yourself on the back. Getting people to pay for your product is extremely difficult. Scroll X and you'll plenty of stories of people giving up because they couldn't acquire customers.

Some of the best feedback I've had so far has been from LinkedIn DMs. I try to connect with every new person that signs up and they often share their initial first impressions.

I am getting battered by link-builders/ spammers today. 100+ emails and no sign of slowing down 😞

@ChaadHR 100%! The fewer, the better. Our own benchmark data shows that teams with just 1–2 OKRs per quarter are twice as likely to achieve them okrstool.com/blog/okr-bench…

#ChaadHRtips 📝 Limit to 3-5 OKRs per quarter. Focus is a competitive advantage. #LessIsMore #ChaadFocus chaadhr.com

I love this ❤️ People are now starting to share my product in their private WhatsApp groups.

@ParmarShantun @swapnakpanda Nice!

@swapnakpanda What one thing could the person in this role before me have done better to help your team meet their OKRs faster?

In a job interview, the final question asked was : "Do you have any question for us?" What will you ask to seal the job?

@mark_liu Wild!

I can already see the meeting where someone maps OKRs to ralph loop completion criteria. "Q3 objective: agent achieves 94% test pass rate autonomously." Same PowerPoint culture, new runtime.

Three types of company are emerging. Ones actively seeking AI-native workers. Ones paralysed by committee. And ones that will put "no AI" in job descriptions like it's 2002 and they're banning mobile phones.

@pcshipp Try the Hotjar free plan to view sessijn recordings. You might find 1-2 blockers.

Finally, my first app died after 14 days - 247 active users - 238 new users - $0 MRR - $0 revenue So finally, I stopped focusing on this app

@Layton_Gott Wow, completely misread. Still the $1 though. Getting people to follow you is easy. Getting people to buy from you is extremely difficult.

@StevenMacd0nald No its 1k for followers or $1 revenue

What’s harder to get? Your first 1k followers or your first $1 in revenue?

I see tons of "We just hit $X MRR in X days" posts, but so few users post MRR from their second month or third month. Retention is THE game.

@oranahh Simple mode

Show me what you shipped this week. Doesn't matter if it's tiny. I just want to see people actually finishing things instead of talking about finishing things.