Bot farm in India, VC's didn't notice.
Is it true or you forgot /s ?
Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
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Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah, this is much slower growth... danger must be it is so slow it must be non-existent. but I am with you on same boat, there are too many AI ads for crappy apps but I guess it speaks to flood of crap-ware, and flood bad content in social networks ^not meaning about you, of course (those folks must not be even on HN)
Building something that people truly need - might not lead to huge sales right away, but I believe this to be a good long-term strategy. Sprint vs marathon. Just keep on pushing on it, and it will eventually work out.
Building something that people do not need might not lead to sales right away either.
Maybe it will work out, at low growth rate... in 180 years, when it does not matter anyways. Extremely low grow rates are functionally indistinguishable from death.
And even successful great products will not be used by anybody, ... if nobody even knows about it.
Think of Facebook or Apple hiding somewhere in corner vs screaming about themselves in Times Square billboards and streets storefronts in rural India.
Marketing, Distribution, Discovery is important for to-be great products too, just as it is important for crap-ware. (unfortunately later makes bad name and bad look for the whole industry).
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#53I'm 40% through getting my first 100 users for https://www.kruh.ltd. So far, I've only added a "banner" announcement on two of my products and mentioned it at the bottom of newsletters to their subscribers. It's taken a couple of months to get this far. I will probably launch in two phases of cohorts. I.e. in blocks of 50.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#54In 4 months I published:
- 22 YouTube videos
- two LinkedIn posts a week
Now I have:
- 100 signups
- 28 demo completions
- 500 subscribers on YouTube
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#55Good post from Lenny Rachitsky on how to acquire your first users
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/consumer-business-find-fi...
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#56I started free, and then upsold to a freemium version after a few years. In the free years, built the best product in the space and hustled to 20,000 DAUs.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#57Initially, I just posted my latest product, Quizgecko on HN and then manually DMd a few hundred people on Linkedin etc. That was enough for 100+ users.
I think if you have a relatively novel idea, that is quick to try out, then people will naturally share.
After that, I submitted to various AI tool directories. They drove a bit of traffic and helped Google find the product. Then some landing pages I made started to rank and it has snowballed from there.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#58I run a small but fairly successful "embed chatGPT on your site" widget https://rispose.com I'm acquiring customers by: - Offer a 100% free unlimited solution (with branding) I get a lot of daily clicks from people coming from my customer's website - Offer a really good price. My competitors are about 5X more expensive. I'll eventually maybe raise my price, but for now I have a lot of people switching to my tool - Af…
Your site would look way better with mx-auto max-w-7xl :)
The content is far too wide on big screens
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#59We relied heavily on network effects early on starting with our friend group and encouraging word-of-mouth growth. We built a multiplatform app called dateit(https://dateit.com/), which is kind of like Facebook Events but with a better user experience.
Obviously, our product is very different from yours, but one thing that worked well for us was focusing on building momentum within small communities first rather than trying to appeal to everyone immediately. Tight-knit groups tend to generate stronger early engagement, which can give you the traction (and feedback) you need to grow.
Another thing we learned: making it dead simple for users to share made a big difference. Even small friction points kill word-of-mouth, so optimizing for effortless sharing really amplified our reach. In your case remove as much friction as possible whatever that is.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#60Not sure if my "products" compare to yours, but I’ve seen some success with a few of them over the years, maybe there are some takeaways (or pitfalls to avoid) for you: CloudCamping (PMS): 250+ Businesses, 2023 - Positioned as more modern, more accessible, and more affordable than the competition - Limited competition due to the complexity of the product - Personally visited campgrounds to demo the product - Sent phy…
> SoundCloud (DJ/Producing as “Schlenker mit Turnbeutel”)
Pardon my ignorance - does SoundCloud let you monetise, or is it purely it being cool that people are listening to your tracks?