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$4,000 ARR in 4 days since launch - a how-to
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Ch Daniel
https://twitter.com/chddaniel/status/1434100099529986051
Hi IH, despite the tongue-in-cheekiness of:
I genuinely believe in building distribution before building product. Or at least starting to work on both from day 1.
The #1 example is MS Teams → Slack. But there are so many other examples — Apple Music and Spotify, so so many Google products
Yes, a mediocre product can win. Yes, some other times the better product wins, or the 'product does the marketing'. But most of the time, I feel like that's... too risky? Or at least, let me put it this way: I find building distribution less risky
Balancing distribution and product (50-50) is also the less risky way to go, IMO
Cool product!
Curious about the banding - Legit Check by Ch, what’s the Ch?
Seems redundant :)
Edit: I’m seeing it’s your first name? My two sense Legit Check sounds great on its own
You're not wrong - but legit check is a saying from the culture, in the world of sneakers/streetwear/high-end designer/etc
So LC by itself would be like calling a car company 'Car' — by Ch is optional, most of the time
Gotcha. Suppose I was getting thrown off not knowing Ch was your name.
Best of luck!
I dig this
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Yeh, I feel this. 12 months on a product, 2 followers on Twitter, 150 members on Telegram.. 1 paying user, maybe 30/40 visits/day on the site. All because I don't have an audience and haven't built one.
Any advice on building an audience on Twitter? I feel like there is so much noise it's hard to be heard at all (could just be the crypto space on there). Do I need to be making posts every 10 minutes like some accounts? I don't know whether to invest into it and still have 2 followers in a few months.
Either way, fully agree with the sentiment of this post. I don't think I will ever build anything again without a sizeable audience ready, it's just not worth it.
Counterintuitively, I think Twitter is rarely the place to go for SaaS founders — but it all depends on what you're trying to do, and what your SaaS is doing
Thing is: you can be follower-rich and MRR-poor — that's not a combo worth having, because it's not a lesson you learn FAST.
No sir - you'll have sunk a year or so, by the time you learn it. I've heard this thing once - what happens on Twitter is not a reflection of what happens in real life
I think Twitter is a good place to amplify any success you've had. See my post above. And that's anyway if you want a personal brand, and if you personal brand brings any utility to your business. It might not
No, I don't think you should post every 10 minutes. Maybe a schedule helps, but I'm not into that. The good thing is that you can skyrocket from nothing
To finally answer your question: the shortest way is this. Look at what your competition (especially bigger competition) is doing to acquire users. Use similarweb. That's a time shortcut for you
SimilarWeb has improved a great deal since I last used it! Thanks for the shout!
Appreciate the response. I'm only going off the many crypto based services which have built large followings on there. Of course, I have no idea how that contributes to their bottom line.
My competition appear to be running giveaways on Twitter for retweets/likes to create a viral feedback loop. Who knows. I think I need to get creative with all my marketing efforts, to be honest.
Problem with crypto is most advertising platforms have shut it down so I have no choice but to go organic. Which I suppose is a good thing in the long-term. I would have liked that initial targeted paid traffic, though.
Thanks for the feedback!
But if you launch a MVP, you'd want to validate the idea and the product, so you'd only be looking for a few good users to give feedback.
How do you validate your product idea? What's the process?
yea a product alone is rarely good enough