Underrated growth hack:
Build a valuable open source tool that capitalizes on an ongoing trend
I made one in an afternoon. Barely promoted it.
Now it pulls 100 hits/day and sends 10% of that to @getcontextdev, some of which have already converted to paying customers.
A small growth lesson from Yahia Bakour: ship a useful open-source tool that sits on top of a live trend, then let the tool route qualified attention back to the paid product. The claimed result is modest but concrete: about 100 visits a day and some paid conversions for Context from an afternoon build with little promotion.
