SaaS a crowded field for this kind of thing, and like everyone says, 20 percent of the effort is building it, the rest is marketing and support.
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?
#92Try to launch in ProductHunt and Appsumo , Good sites
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#93Not 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…
- CloudCamping (still only German market for now) https://www.cloud-camping.com/
- The Road to Next (fully launched last month) https://www.road-to-next.com/
- Music https://soundcloud.com/schlenkermitturnbeutel
Feel free to AMA.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#94Leave a link to join WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, or Subreddit in the MVP.
Engage with the early adopters there and figure out what it is they need.
Move to address that as soon as you can.
Repeat?
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#95Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#96The way I'm acquiring customers is to offer a free Pro subscription worth over $100 to the first 100 early adopters.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you able to share. I would love to see real world success stories of LLM use cases and integrations, beyond the common ones you see often (code gen, story gen, automated summaries, etc)
Of course. Most of the AI cases (that turn out to be an actual success) focus around a few repeatable patterns and a limited use of "AI". Here are a few interesting ones: (1) Data extraction. E.g. extracting specs of electronic components from data-sheets (it was applied to address a USA market with 300M per year size). Or parsing back Purchase Order specs from PDFs in fragmented and under-digitized EU construction m…
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#98In 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).
so much media content and only 100 user… damn thats tough
Like, how else should it work? There is of course always Google Ads but that strikes me as more short-sighted than building a backlog of content to refer back to.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#99Grown way past 100 users with: • Make a great product. Everyone tells you "build it and they will come" is not working anymore, but it's working _for me_. • Outreach via your network. Talk to people with the intent of learning, not selling. • I'm personally on a freemium model. But that's in the developer-to-developer market, which is vastly different from your B2C EDIT: https://www.bugsink.com/ link to product, may…
> https://www.bugsink.com/ link to product, may give an idea of what we're doing. It's immediately obvious to me that the illustrations are AI slop You should invest 20 bucks into getting some pictures of a guy in a datacenter, or 200 to pay some dude on Fiverr to draw you some sinks, instead of having these be the first thing customers see when checking out your product