How did you get your first users? (share your secrets)
I'm wondering how everyone got their first users.
SITE: share your website
EXPERIENCE: Your experience and how you did it. (your secrets)
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I'm wondering how everyone got their first users.
SITE: share your website
EXPERIENCE: Your experience and how you did it. (your secrets)
For this I'll explain first paying user, I've got nearly 300 sign ups and they just trickle in.
SITE: Portabella, Privacy friendly project management
EXPERIENCE: Culmination of a lot of effort but what tipped the first customer I think was going the open startup route (https://portabella.io/open). That got me a lot of attention on Twitter which is where they found it.
So the takeaway here is having to add a sort of reward system attached to your site/product . That i think will be appealing to a lot of users. Besides in the early days of GitHub they gave out shirts and mugs to get users.
That’s a solid one ;)
SITE: Hive Index
EXPERIENCE: Hive index organizes online communities by topic. After curating a topic, I would go to some of those communities and share the whole list with them. It's a bit meta because my product is also my distribution channel. I found that the whole list of communities for a topic were received very well by the communities I'd post in, as people in these communities are open to learning about new communities to join as well.
It’s like a community aggregator. That’s a really nice experience.
Yeah exactly. Thank you!
SITE: Metronome
EXPERIENCE: I got lucky! I had launched an earlybird program, to acquire an initial cohort of users. I posted about this on IH and on talked about it here and there on Twitter. Then, somehow the Podnews newsletter picked up on this and featured Metronome on one edition, back in December. That post got me my first 36 users!
So having to put your product out there and give insight about it gets you started and who knows, many people too might get lucky!
Thanks for sharing
SITE: Simple Dev
EXPERIENCE: I got my first free user by posting in a local coding meetup's Facebook group. My second free user came from the Indie Hackers milestone I posted about getting my first free user 😆. Since then I've gotten some friends to sign up and the rest seem to come from Google and social media. I only have 20+ free users at the moment, so I still have a long way to go.
That's a good experience though, keep it up
Thanks for sharing
I'm not sharing my personal experience but I've recently discovered this newsletter and I'm sure some of you will be interested. Each week, the writer delves into a successful entrepreneur, and investigates how they managed to get to where they are.
Either way, it'll give insights to getting your first users
Giving away free stuff. When I created the social media accounts for my product, the first thing I did was raffle away about 250$ worth of product and the post got around 500 likes.
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So primarily the key is
Nice one