- Mention-pages don't duplicate. Sub-pages do.
If you build a dashboard and reference other pages as .u/mention-page, those pages will NOT come with the dashboard when a buyer duplicates it. They'll get a broken link to your private original.
The fix: anything you want to ship with the template has to be a real nested sub-page in the tree.
- Data model first, dashboards second.
My first attempt started with the beautiful home page. I threw it out. The second attempt started with paper, I wrote out every database, column, and relationship before opening Notion. Dashboards built themselves once the data model was clean.
- Test from a second account. Always.
I almost shipped with one broken permission (see #1). Caught it only because I logged into a test account and bought my own product. If I hadn't, every buyer would've refunded within 5 minutes.
Anyone here sell Notion templates? What did YOU learn the hard way? Genuinely curious for anyone who's been through the same process.