Curating a bunch of "How X got its initial users" posts. What are your favorite startups?
Hi guys, my product, BridgeURL, is all about curating a bunch of links on a single page.
Just relaunched it today and working on a few marketing strategies.
One thing I am working on is a long curated list of how different startups got their initial users. I think my target group (marketers) will find this topic interesting.
These are the companies I have with me right now. Can you suggest more:
BuzzFeed
Canva
Discord
DoorDash
Dropbox
Envato
Etsy
Evernote
Grindr
Grubhub
Indie Hackers
Intercom
Lyft
Name2Email (Reply.io)
NameCheap
Nasty Gal
Oberlo
Pandora
Pinterest
PlentyOfFish
Reddit
Shopify
Snapchat
Spotify
Square
Stripe
Tinder
Trello
Twilio
Twitch
Upworthy
Venmo
WhatsApp
Wish
Yelp
Highly recommend Do Things That Don't Scale - a crowdsourced collection of unscalable startup hacks and stories:
https://www.dothingsthatdontscale.com/
Thanks Sameer, will check this out
https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/p/how-the-biggest-consumer-apps-got
Thank you Gene. I now have around 60 startups curated and was hitting a roadblock. This link has plenty of new ones that I have not curated yet. Will check them out.
Looks like a great list @hubbion. I look forward to some of the insights.
I'm excited to be building this list too, Gordon. Will share it here as well when it is ready.
Sweet!
Miro (formerly RealTimeBoard), Webflow, Slack
Thanks a lot @andreigaspar. Found these nice writeups on their growth story. Adding them to my list
https://neilpatel.com/blog/100k-early-bird-signups/
https://webflow.com/blog/the-story-of-how-webflow-and-y-combinator
https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/aiddmd/how_slack_got_their_first_users/eeousua/
I'm sure there are more detailed stories of these startups. Going to dig them out in the evening.
Thanks these are interesting! Keep up the good work.
Check out this based on this if you're looking for how startups got their first customers.
Very nice, thanks a lot @hessel