# Week 02 — Aug 18–24
## Weekly outcome
**Ship first experiments and collect proof.**
Parent plan: [100 Daily Signups Growth Plan](../100%20Daily%20Signups%20Growth%20Plan.md)
## Expected metrics
| Metric | End-of-week target |
|---|---:|
| Completed signups/day run rate | 6 |
| Qualified visitors/day | 160 |
| Visitor → signup | 3.75% |
| ICP-qualified share | 20% target |
| Signup → first useful change | 18% |
| First useful changes/day | ~1.1 |
| Day-7 return | Baseline established |
Targets are operating expectations, not causal forecasts. Weekly evidence can move channel contributions while preserving the total trajectory.
## Expected channel contribution
| Medium | End-of-week signup run rate |
|---|---:|
| Branded/direct/word of mouth | 3/day |
| Cold email | 1/day |
| LinkedIn outbound | 0.7/day |
| Founder content and organic social | 0.4/day |
| Creators, partners, and communities | 0.2/day |
| Sponsored directories/newsletters/media | 0.4/day |
| Non-branded SEO | 0/day |
| Paid acquisition | 0.3/day |
| **Total** | **6/day** |
## Week-specific deliverables
- [ ] Put the first acquisition-to-activation dashboard into daily use, even if known gaps remain explicitly labeled.
- [ ] Ship the cold-email and LinkedIn destinations with correct campaign attribution.
- [ ] Run the first homepage message/CTA treatment and record visitor → signup performance.
- [ ] Review the first cold offer cohorts by positive replies, signups, ICP quality, imports, and useful changes.
- [ ] Replace the 30% LinkedIn interested → signup assumption with observed cohort progress where mature enough.
- [ ] Publish three new founder product demonstrations and identify the strongest hook, workflow, and CTA.
- [ ] Begin creator/partner outreach and secure the first collaboration commitments.
- [ ] Renew or continue proven sponsorship inventory and contact at least five comparable sponsorship properties.
- [ ] Publish three additional high-intent SEO pages or material updates and confirm indexing.
- [ ] Send the first segmented warm-user reactivation/proof request.
- [ ] Choose Product Hunt tagline, gallery direction, video concept, and maker-story outline.
## Recurring execution across every medium
- [ ] Cold email: operate toward the 1,400-send daily limit, protect deliverability, and report unique leads → positive replies → signups → useful changes.
- [ ] LinkedIn: maintain 40 connection requests/day and report requests → accepts → replies → interested → signups → useful changes.
- [ ] Founder content: produce three anchor product demonstrations/week and distribute channel-native versions with tracked links.
- [ ] Creators/communities: keep outreach, collaborations, and community participation active; measure activated-user yield.
- [ ] Sponsored media: renew proven sponsorships and test comparable paid properties; do not optimize for listing count.
- [ ] Non-branded SEO: publish three high-intent pages or material updates/week with real product proof.
- [ ] Paid: run or scale learning tests only within approved budget, attribution, quality, and activation guardrails.
- [ ] Product Hunt: continue preparation or post-launch follow-up; launch only when readiness gates pass.
- [ ] Measurement/activation: review source, ICP quality, imports, first useful changes, and Day-7 return every week.
- [ ] Product sharing remains a support capability and is not assigned an acquisition target.
## End-of-week evidence required
- [ ] Actual completed signups/day and rolling average.
- [ ] Qualified visitors/day and visitor → signup conversion.
- [ ] ICP-qualified signups and share.
- [ ] Codebase imports, first useful changes, and Day-7 return where mature.
- [ ] Actual channel contribution versus the expected table.
- [ ] Spend and cost per signup/activated user for sponsored and paid media.
- [ ] Scale / improve / stop / protect decision for every medium.
- [ ] Exact carryover deliverables for the next week.
## Guardrails
- Do not count branded Mode searches as non-branded SEO acquisition.
- Do not use Build Start / Build Succeed as the guided-demo funnel.
- Do not infer cold-email totals from ambiguous platform percentages.
- Do not equate LinkedIn interest with signup.
- Do not model product sharing as an acquisition medium.
- Do not count ordinary directory listings as sponsorship growth.
- Keep completed signups, ICP-qualified signups, activated users, and canonical qualified users distinct.