How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers • Hacker News Board

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by itsbenlee » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 2:13 AM UTC

swaggyBoatswain wrote: post #16

itsbenlee wrote: post #13

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Appreciate your perspective. Which portfolio site are you referring to?

https://csytan.com

Never heard of him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by kornish » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 2:23 AM UTC

itsbenlee wrote: post #21

swaggyBoatswain wrote: post #16

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https://csytan.com

Never heard of him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

swaggyBoatswain's comment is responding to csytan's comment, not your post.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by itsbenlee » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 2:31 AM UTC

kornish wrote: post #22

itsbenlee wrote: post #21

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Never heard of him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

swaggyBoatswain's comment is responding to csytan's comment, not your post.

Ah...sorry lads! couldn't tell on mobile :-)

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by briandear » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 2:47 AM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #8

I have an interesting question. Say there is an already established business that has more than proven the idea is viable. What does it take to... join the same market space? Can you offer the same features at the same price? Can you offer the same features at a lower price? Can you offer less features at a lower price? Are there cases where there is only room for one player and no matter what you do, you will not be…

Find a differentiator. Often simply the UX differences can be enough. Look at the CRM space for example. Salesforce is a collosal mess from a UX standpoint, so companies like Pipedrive can do pretty well by specifically not being Salesforce.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by sbilstein » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 2:48 AM UTC

csytan wrote: post #7

My wife and I are bootstrapping a business, and we're nearly at 100 customers (92 right now). I would not say it's an easy road. We've been working on it full time for 1.5 years so far. A couple things I've realized while doing this: 1. Business is a competition. Much like in sports, skills are only built up through practice. For an entrepreneur this means actually selling something. You will start at level 0. There…

How long did it take you to build your product? My partner and I are bootstrapping have customers but I’m always way behind on product as a solo dev.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by asadlionpk » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 2:50 AM UTC

itsbenlee wrote: post #20

rolleiflex wrote: post #19

This is super timely — looking forward to take a look at this in the evening. Wish this was in an ebook format so I could stick it into my Kindle and read it that way though. You might want to check out Calibre, it's an app that automatically converts to more ebook-friendly formats. Might be worth a shot. BTW - you might want to just host the PDF on your website behind an email wall and put it behind Cloudflare. I ju…

Will check out Calibre. Appreciate the feedback! You can get the PDF downloadable link here: first100.yobenlee.com. Will work on EPUB/MOBI formats!

Please do those formats. Many read on iBooks and pdf is hard to work with. I also tried calibre on the PDF, but that doesn't produce a good output. Thanks for this.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by itsbenlee » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 2:58 AM UTC

asadlionpk wrote: post #26

itsbenlee wrote: post #20

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Will check out Calibre. Appreciate the feedback! You can get the PDF downloadable link here: first100.yobenlee.com. Will work on EPUB/MOBI formats!

Please do those formats. Many read on iBooks and pdf is hard to work with. I also tried calibre on the PDF, but that doesn't produce a good output. Thanks for this.

Already pinged my designer. If you want to opt-in on my page, I’ll make sure we push these formats before the holidays! Thanks for the feedback.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by asadlionpk » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 3:05 AM UTC

itsbenlee wrote: post #27

asadlionpk wrote: post #26

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Please do those formats. Many read on iBooks and pdf is hard to work with. I also tried calibre on the PDF, but that doesn't produce a good output. Thanks for this.

Already pinged my designer. If you want to opt-in on my page, I’ll make sure we push these formats before the holidays! Thanks for the feedback.

Awesome

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by boxcarr » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 3:06 AM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #8

I have an interesting question. Say there is an already established business that has more than proven the idea is viable. What does it take to... join the same market space? Can you offer the same features at the same price? Can you offer the same features at a lower price? Can you offer less features at a lower price? Are there cases where there is only room for one player and no matter what you do, you will not be…

Super simple. No matter the industry, you can beat the competition with AI + blockchain written in Rust.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by dmacedo » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 3:09 AM UTC

asadlionpk wrote: post #26

itsbenlee wrote: post #20

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Will check out Calibre. Appreciate the feedback! You can get the PDF downloadable link here: first100.yobenlee.com. Will work on EPUB/MOBI formats!

Please do those formats. Many read on iBooks and pdf is hard to work with. I also tried calibre on the PDF, but that doesn't produce a good output. Thanks for this.

In the meantime, you can use the export from GDocs to get an epub format.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/104qgagSsp2rQQEDORGbYC0uq...