With our product (https://schezy.com/), we're experimenting with SEO and content marketing while also tapping into school admin communities. For your B2C AI SaaS, maybe try micro-influencers or community-led growth to get quality users, not just traffic.
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?
#102We’re building a SaaS analytics tool aimed at helping founders better understand their subscription metrics: https://metricster.com
We had ~100 early signups during initial testing, but it’s been much harder lately to get visibility — especially with the AI noise everywhere.
Tried:
Reddit and Facebook groups
Cold outreach to founders
Slowly investing in SEO for the long term
Still figuring out what actually drives conversions.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#103Not 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…
If anyone wants to check out these things: - 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.
Thanks for the flashback! My first coding assignment in highschool was to build a camping management tool in Visual Basic. This is what got my into coding.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#104I'm doing a hardware startup (the first repairable e-bike battery, https://gouach.com if you're interested) and we got users by doing an Indiegogo :)
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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
wow I didn't see it that way at all, they looked good to me.
They are very obviously "AI generated genre" which many still don't pick up on. Whether art that is obviously AI-generated is appealing or effective - that may also be the case
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#106B2C @ $50/month from an unknown company is a HUGE ask.
lmao yeah lol, I mean claude/chatgpt etc didnt cost that much at the start
maybe they use image generation, thats why launch price is so expensive
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#107Product: Manabi Reader https://reader.manabi.io
Japanese language learners congregate in a bunch of online discussion boards and subreddits. Some of my competitors have forums that are open to anyone posting about their own self-made tools, in addition to users discussing learning resources unrelated to the host's products. So I simply posted about my service on several of these and quickly gained thousands of early users.
I had more luck than others who try the same because my product solves pain points and offers features that competition don't or don't as nicely, ie quality and value. I also attract users with friendly pricing: a standard pricing tier and an unverified student / low-income pricing tier for the same service level.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#108Not 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…
If anyone wants to check out these things: - 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.
Was there any particular reason you stopped making music?
I'm listening to one of your mixes right now and I'm wondering if you were influenced by Klangkarussell at all (or maybe the other way around?) or if that was just the general 2014 vibe.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#109Grown 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
Still a tiny bit better than the "massive limbs bendy people" corporate style.
Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?
#110I have a lot of bullet point summaries of nonfiction that I share on https://littlerbooks.com. I got my first hundred users mostly by just mentioning in it in social media posts where appropriate.