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How do you get initial users for your webapp?

Hi Everyone

I have been building my app that is for blind dating. I am curious how have you gotten your initial users for your app or site?...

My daily page visits are appalling and I don't even know how to get people to visit it. My budget is low as I just graduated, but when I talk to people they say they love the idea... How do I get the product in front of people?

The app is at https://hoopdedoo.com

on July 18, 2020
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    Your app is about dating, reach out to communities that talk about dating. Just don't flood, suggest naturally. I'm finishing up a text editor/formatter to use on whatsapp/FB messenger (webtexteditor) and I try to be more active in digital marketing groups/forums because that's where my target audience is placed.

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    I would echo some of the other suggestions here, and go get active in those communities you are interested in targeting.

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    The mid of a pandemic may not be the best moment for launching a product for in person activities. Hold tight, all the best.

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    hey there...just curious - what suggestions have you taken? what worked and what didn't?

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    There is no point in focusing on getting people to visit your website, before you have a decent website.

    Your website right now, is just a sign up screen.

    It doesn't explain why I should sign up, or even what it is that you do?

    Even if you manage to get a 1,000 daily visitors at this stage. <0.001% of them would sign up.

    Build a proper landing page first, then get some daily visitors, improve your conversation rates to a decent percentage and then really focus on driving traffic.

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    • Add some landing page to explain the concept because the immediate flow of asking questions is intrusive when I don't know what it is.
    • b/c of covid -- facilitate dates over zoom or similar. I've seen people do this on youtube it's a real thing. The cool thing is you don't actually have to build much, just get them to the point where they agree to meet over said platform and you are done
    • Post this on reddit - find the appropriate subreddit and do not flood
    • If you want organic react you will need to write some content that search engine robots can crawl; they will not index buttons/images. This is a very slow strategy, it will take you 6 mo - 1 year to see this strategy working.
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    I got my initial users from a Life Time Deal from Dealify recently. I shared my experience here https://www.indiehackers.com/product/blocksurvey/made-money-from-lifetimedeal--MBeNh-oeL2TdOmq_QLl.

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    Great question. Will tell you when I've got some on Portabella

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    who did you build this for, specifically?

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      I built for single people in general, but I believe you g people are more receptive to video first content

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    Nice concept! It has a lot of potential.

    Put it on producthunt and Betalist immediately.

    You also need to spend some $$ on IG ads.

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      Thanks for the advice, maybe I an help you with your project

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        That would be awesome!!
        You can email me at p at callanyone.io

        I was thinking about your platform yesterday. And more than ig ads, Ads on tinder and bumble will get you more users quickly as the users are already in a similar state of mind.

        Unfortunately ads on tinder are really expensive.