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I got 20k+ downloads for my app by posting on Reddit. It's an app/website blocker for iPhone & Mac, so I focused on relevant communities like r/digitalminimalism and r/dumbphones with genuine, non-spammy posts: https://www.atten.app I also tried "apps gone free" campaigns by posting on Reddit and using sites like AppRaven. These were very effective for visibility, the launch is currently the #5 all-time post on r/mac…
Insane Clown Posse? Now I'm interested!
Managed to scale my legal tech B2B product Tritium ( https://tritium.legal ) through an existing professional network. It's technically B2B but B2C in the sense that it's marketed directly to the end-user, not the enterprise. Probably not yet at a hundred users, but it's heading there. I'm using these initial users to flesh out the frequently asked questions and produce the introduction artifacts to hopefully transit…
Managed to scale my legal tech B2B product Tritium ( https://tritium.legal ) through an existing professional network. It's technically B2B but B2C in the sense that it's marketed directly to the end-user, not the enterprise. Probably not yet at a hundred users, but it's heading there. I'm using these initial users to flesh out the frequently asked questions and produce the introduction artifacts to hopefully transit…
I'm not your intended audience but I've had a play with the web preview and I really like it! Is it using WASM for that?
[NOTE: Windows build phones home for updates; others don't yet.]
Find a way to make it free to start. This is how Firebase, Supabase and friends work. Getting 100 people to sign up for a free service is still work, but significantly less.
Making it 100X harder to get them to pay for it subsequently. "If you’re good at something, never do it for free" - Joseph Joker MBA JD. If not, then you are in the ad business.
I suspect there's a special dynamic for developers. I'm usually more willing to try out new things on personal projects, but I also don't like paying for things on personal projects. At work I don't care how much things cost, but I'll definitely advocate for tools that worked well on personal projects.
In 4 months I published: - 22 YouTube videos - two LinkedIn posts a week It has to be said that I was well plugged in to niche forums and subreddits. Now I have: - 100 signups - 28 demo completions - 500 subscribers on YouTube The product is: https://foxev.io (learn about electric car tech like you learn languages with duolingo).