How did you get your first 10 customer outside your personal circle?
As a startup founder, how did you get your first 10 customers outside the people you know before hand? What was your experience like?
Did you give them a free product for feedback? How did the experience go?
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I got my first 10 customers from a tweet which sent over 6k people to my product. I had invested some serious time into growing my Twitter account within the React.js niche, so that definitely helped :)
Man this is awesome. Love your product by the way. Such a simple but powerful idea. Glad to see you’re having success with it.
I’m building a product for developers also but don’t use Twitter. This looks like a strong argument to try growing an audience there.
How long were you focused on growing a React.js audience?
Thanks for the kind words! So not super long. While working on Divjoy I built usehooks.com as a quick weekend side-project and launched it on twitter. That ended up pulling in a lot of React dev followers. From there growth was mostly about tweeting React-related stuff and announcing new useHooks posts. I think it's much easier to grow your following in a niche if you can start off with one medium/high effort project that gives you a good following boost. You then have enough followers in the niche where subsequent low-effort tweets will still get enough traction to keep pulling in new followers.
Haha no way, I’ve read through a few things on usehooks.com before too!
That’s such a great idea though. Provide some decent value for free to build a following first as a springboard.
Thanks for the response! Definitely actionable and helpful.
Twitter, Indiehacker and BetaList have brought us the most people to checkout taskbill.io but the highest quality leads have come from being listed on the Asana and Basecamp integration pages.
If your app integrates with a popular third party tool, make sure you get added to their tools or marketplace pages!
Thank you @jmclarke . Ya, we at reviewhornet.com was also thinking of 3rd party integration as a traction channel. Was it consistent traffic for you from Asana and Basecamp?
Yes, they both bring in about the same amount of traffic on a consistent basis:
Here is my top sources for the last 30 days:
https://www.loom.com/i/b3e737e4479e4d0fa58c81e10588f031
Wow, these are pretty good numbers considering they are high intent customers. Thank you for sharing @jmclarke