The following is a log from building Clarity notes, a Youtube note taking app in public. I kept building the momentum around the product in public and bringing a small niche audience together to grow this product.
Launch Alert 🚨
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 2, 2021
Clarity is now live on @ProductHunt !
10x faster note-taking without leaving your keyboard!https://t.co/7oJlUxjuKu
Take Youtube notes at the speed of your thoughts:
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 2, 2021
Inbuilt shortcut commands that allow you to take markdown notes without leaving your keyboard. pic.twitter.com/Oa6pLLvSH0
Never lose your notes again.
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 2, 2021
Your notes are automatically saved and synced online. Retrieve it whenever you want. pic.twitter.com/EmXn6f12Ii
Youtube notes are stored in the context.
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 2, 2021
Your notes make more sense when you can understand the context in which it is situated. Take the notes from where you left earlier. pic.twitter.com/0NeRxGp1Uz
We hope this brings more 'clarity' in your life by helping you organise your thoughts better :)
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 2, 2021
We envision Clarity becoming your second brain someday.
This is our first launch on @ProductHunt and we're super excited/nervous about it!
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 2, 2021
The product is completely free. Support us through a simple RT or a quote tweet for some good karma.
You could find us here:https://t.co/7oJlUxjuKu
After roughly ~5 weeks, five iterations and upto 200 hours of development, @Abu and I have finally launched Clarity this!
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 2, 2021
Looking forward to your feedback and comments! Please roast us if necessary :D
OMG! Such heartful PH Comments! 🤩
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 2, 2021
Thanks for the shoutout @AdityaVSC
This is still ringing in my head -
'If Youtube is the new classroom, then Clarity is the new notebook' pic.twitter.com/JYepDmkxPj
I keep looking at this graph. Look at all those bubbles growing everywhere across the world! pic.twitter.com/7lcqQUolOq
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 2, 2021
@arvidkahl Big fan of your book, Zero to Sold which inspired me into the indiehacker journey and launch this SaaS product with @AbuAbdullah_IN
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 3, 2021
Hope you find this useful :)
@anthilemoon
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 3, 2021
We've been big fans of your note-taking process, and have even watched your unlisted raw videos of how you take notes!
Here's something which we launched on @ProductHunt that allows you to take 10x faster Youtube notes!https://t.co/IkBg3cNvkk
Hey @TheJackForge !
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 3, 2021
We hear you! Youtube is definitely the new classroom for developers, and the note-taking has to as seamless and frictionless as possible.
Hope this helps you in your workflow :)https://t.co/D2TYky5GSi
Feeling so humbled! Thank you for all the support :)
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 3, 2021
567 users have so far accessed our Chrome extension. It's not even been a day! pic.twitter.com/NlV85MKbn2
@ProductHunt Launch Update as of 12:30 IST, Oct 3:
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 3, 2021
We close the day as #3 on Product Hunt!
Here are some stats from today:
401 upvotes
567+ site visits
267 active users using Clarity right now
350+ Youtube notes have been created so far!
Averaging ~20 users per minute /past 24h
We're enjoying Diwali by watching all these Clarity users light up the world 🤩
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 3, 2021
What a Diwali! Thank you everyone :) pic.twitter.com/QtRJDvGHvM
Arvid Kahl just RT'd this post! Am I daydreaming now? pic.twitter.com/cy9z9XCI3N
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 3, 2021
Clarity featured in @ProductHunt newsletter, wohoo! pic.twitter.com/7owBJWQCDR
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 3, 2021
Still not able to process this: We just overtook Microsoft on the Product Hunt leaderboard!
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 4, 2021
This is the power of a weekend side project 🚀 pic.twitter.com/MJlwC6FqmA
A friend of mine wrote a thank you note within the app itself 🥲
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 5, 2021
Thank you for the meta-compliment! pic.twitter.com/YJwSDsDql1
We have added some UI updates for @claritynotesio
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 9, 2021
1. An improved way to view all the YouTube notes taken
2. Feedback form on the sidebar for easier feedbacks. pic.twitter.com/NEixHWpeRs
Clarity finds interesting use cases!
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) November 21, 2021
Here you find one of our power-users (@deepika_gk) using Clarity for taking down lyrics and chords for songs on Ukulele :) pic.twitter.com/DfLowX3AUF
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) January 5, 2022
Clarity making it into some obscure media sites from France and China!
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) February 17, 2022
We haven't been doing much marketing TBH, but have been receiving some decent word-of-mouth traction :) pic.twitter.com/RK32IR9cEV
Another major milestone unlocked ❤️
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) July 15, 2022
$100 in sales for @claritynotesio
The rubber hits the road finally, LFG! 🎉 pic.twitter.com/96OK8wIYdW
And this happening:@fortelabs following Clarity notes 💫
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) July 7, 2022
That’s equivalent to Roger Federer following you for your tennis in the productivity world 😅 pic.twitter.com/NlROD2GtmJ
This day is really really special —we’ve got our first paid customer on our monthly subscription for Clarity Notes. https://t.co/iaYXFqd8a0
— shreyasprakash.eth (@pablomuralo) July 7, 2022
