How did you get your first X users? 🤔💬

Hi Abdul, I created a public Trello board with 100 ways to get your first 100 users: https://trello.com/b/wGkvzNYV/🚀100-tried-and-tested-actionable-ways-to-get-your-first-100-users Hope it's useful 🚀

Emailing your inner network :)

For stuff that's solving an explicit problem (as opposed to a nice-to-have), the first few usually come from doing your normal customer conversations/learning. And then, when people you're talking to seem extra keen about the problem you're solving, transition into a more product/sales convo.

Sales.

As others have already mentioned, I would start with family and friends. I would then try to build a user base on social media websites like Twitter. As an example, if you are in the process of making a game, I would recommend making extensive use of hashtags to gain more impressions on your tweets. Best of luck! :)

Emailed a survey to friends and family and asked them to forward to any SMB they knew. Later launched on Betalist and other startup listing sites (not sure if that works anymore)

By documenting the journey of building the company.

I was able to sign up to quite a few high traffic apps and their directories (Slack, Google Hangouts Chat, etc) provided instant traffic. Through there it was simply refinement and time.

I have gotten the first ~60 users for https://frequently.io through Product Hunt, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, various entrepreneur-related subreddits, and Twitter.

Cold emails.

Lots of trial and error with Google Ads.

Asking for feedback in Reddit, FB & Slack communities work well for first users.

After that, you have to work for first paying users :)