47 real users in 1 week after launching and what I learned
Guys, got my first 47 users after one week, not a big number – I admit, but still want to share with you guys the progress and what I learned.
Here’s the breakdown of where they came from and - more importantly - what I realized I got wrong during the build.
1. High-Trust Referrals > Broad Traffic
LinkedIn (541 Impressions => 12 Users): Targeting HR professionals with a specific "Employee Engagement" angle worked. It was high-intent and niche. But the activeness of this segment is still in question. I haven't had any follow-up post since then.
The "Champion" Effect: A friend shared the tool on her company’s Slack. She was very impressed with Prompt-to-Survey feature - not just by the AI "gimmick," but by the logic, wording, and flow of the questionnaire that was generated by AI. That one Slack post brought 10 users.
The Reddit Void: I got traffic, but zero conversions.
2. "Minor" Features are actually Dealbreakers
I thought "batch pasting" options for questions was a "nice-to-have" polish. My users disagreed. They told me immediately that manually typing out options for a question was a dealbreaker.
A very interesting case is that an user reached out to me and shared that they really need the “batch options input” since they had a question with around 300 options (a list of schools they wanted respondents to choose from).
Acknowledged this need, I have updated the platform. Now you guys can copy options text from elsewhere and paste to the survey instead of manually typing them out.
3. The UX blind spot
This is quite silly. I was so focused on other complex logic that I completely ignored the "door" to the house.
After signing up, I had users redirected to their Profile Page which cause confusion and stuck. . They didn't sign up to look at their profile; they signed up to build a survey. I’ve since fixed this so they land straight in the Workspace so users can build the survey straight away without navigating to the Workspace themselves.
What’s next
That’s it. The high from 1st week launching is wearing off. Now come the phase of testing distribution channels to find a scalable one. I am setting a goal of 100 users by the end of March. If you guys have any suggestions, feel free to leave that in the comment. Also very much welcome you guys to my platform and test it out.
Thanks guys.
