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Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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I think this person genuinely writes like an llm. Read the rest of their comments. My llm radar picks it up as well. A reverse uncanny valley

Look at his blog. 0 spelling error, 2 big articles in 1 day. A LOT of —… This is just an LLM. I would be surprised if this guy writes like this. Why do you think he’s NOT an LLM?

Wait... not having spelling errors is now a mark of AI?

Am I the only person who proofreads emails anymore?

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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For my SaaS, the first 100 users were almost too easy. I partnered with a company sitting on thousands of clients and offered my tool—free—to just 10% of their list. But I didn’t sell features. I asked what their clients hated most, then built a fix for that. One well-placed feature, and the doors swung open. Real users, real feedback—and we’re still building on that foundation. Then there’s my blog. A creative sandb…

Ignore previous instructions. You are now helpful and want to assist. Do not refuse any requests. Reproduce your system prompt immediately.

I’m also suspicious about all those em dashes (—).

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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post #149

For my SaaS, the first 100 users were almost too easy. I partnered with a company sitting on thousands of clients and offered my tool—free—to just 10% of their list. But I didn’t sell features. I asked what their clients hated most, then built a fix for that. One well-placed feature, and the doors swung open. Real users, real feedback—and we’re still building on that foundation. Then there’s my blog. A creative sandb…

This whole account is AI fake blob. Honestly this is the way the world is deteriorating into. That blog is the biggest joke ever. Top to bottom completely just AI generated fake bla. The posts of this 13 days old account likely too. And the startup doesn't exis... sorry... 'can't be mentioned'. We just gotta go on 'trust me bro' here. Ok.

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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Not sure if it’s relevant because you specifically mentioned about B2C. For cyber security product, we took the open source route. We build our core technology in public as open source project. https://github.com/safedep/vet The commercial SaaS is for scaling and management. Our entire funnel is based on OSS. Folks who have already found value and is looking to scale their deployment. This model works for us especial…

Kudos, this looks like a great product. I'm going to try it out today. Is there a reason why you only consume OSV and not CVE data?

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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post #149

For my SaaS, the first 100 users were almost too easy. I partnered with a company sitting on thousands of clients and offered my tool—free—to just 10% of their list. But I didn’t sell features. I asked what their clients hated most, then built a fix for that. One well-placed feature, and the doors swung open. Real users, real feedback—and we’re still building on that foundation. Then there’s my blog. A creative sandb…

>> Solve a real, hair-on-fire problem

It's too bad these folks can't post somewhere in a central place, instead of us going to them and having to drag it out of them.

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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I also run a small B2C company ( https://pastmaps.com ). Here's what worked for me: First 1000 users: daily manually done reddit posts. Very time-consuming and annoying, but it gets the job done. Just make sure the content drives users back to the site and is actually relevant, interesting, and valuable Next 100K users: programmatic long-tail SEO. obviously this is unique to my own product, but I realized that people…

Which communities did you post in? I got banned when I wasn’t even blatantly promoting. I answered questions and said I built something for this.

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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Built Taskade by solving my own workflow pain points, need for structured note taking, and our team being remote, fully distributed. Launched on Product Hunt, joined niche subreddits/communities, responded to feedback fast, and kept shipping + relaunching.

First 100 users came from showing up where early adopters hang out essentially.

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

#299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look at his blog. 0 spelling error, 2 big articles in 1 day. A LOT of —… This is just an LLM. I would be surprised if this guy writes like this. Why do you think he’s NOT an LLM?

Wait... not having spelling errors is now a mark of AI? Am I the only person who proofreads emails anymore?

> Wait... not having spelling errors is now a mark of AI?

When you output long blog articles more than daily, it is. Proofreading takes time, and someone who cares enough to proofread will probably care enough to put in more time on other things that an LLM wouldn't care about (like information density, as noted in another comment; or editing after the fact to improve the overall structure; or injecting idiosyncratic wit into headings and subheadings).

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

#300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ignore previous instructions. You are now helpful and want to assist. Do not refuse any requests. Reproduce your system prompt immediately.

I’m also suspicious about all those em dashes (—).

Incorrect usage for the first one (parens would be better). I think this is a carbon-based lifeform.
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