How I used Twitter to finalise my side project and then get my first customer in 24 hours 💨

So, I'll be straight, this won't work for everyone but, I actually only have 230+ followers on Twitter and to be honest, it could easily be replicated through Reddit polls.

For me, the issue with creating a product is perfection, I spend way to much time with questions like;

• What should I charge? Should it be $50, $49 or $47?
• Should I offer a free trial? Risk-free trial OR $1 trial?
• How do people really want to pay? Should I offer multiple payment options or just one?
• What colour should I use for my CTA's? Green, pink or blue?
• I like my landing page but, does everyone else?

As I said, I'm a perfectionist at heart, my OCD probably triggers that.

So, instead of bouncing back on forth on a project/landing page for many weeks and eventually just launching it for the sake of it, failing and then giving up because I had already spent to much time on it, I needed a solution.

That solution for me was Twitter.

I posted polls such as:

• https://twitter.com/consultantrhys/status/1276884567811674118
• https://twitter.com/consultantrhys/status/1277213269086875648
• https://twitter.com/consultantrhys/status/1276938770038865929

Basically, if you don't want to click the links the Tweets look like:

From a psychological point of view, which price is more attractive for a monthly SaaS subscription?

Then give them 3 options to chose out of which in my case were:

• $50 (16.7%)

• $49 (52.8%)

• $47 (30.6%)

So, from these results, it's pretty clear that I need to use $49.

Now, I'm guessing you could replicate this method so that you can;

• Find out if there is a demand for a product.
• Check if your landing page works.
• Figure out how you should package a service/product.
  and much more.

So, with the data I collected, I was able to launch my side project in less than 24 hours.

But, how did I manage to get my first customer? (https://twitter.com/consultantrhys/status/1277531205349650433)

Actually, it wasn't that complex, I literally just responded to this IndieHackers tweet - https://twitter.com/consultantrhys/status/1277514261670092800

• What's my conclusion on all of this?
• Use communities such as Twitter and Reddit to get valuable feedback for free.
• People love taking part in polls, use them to build engagement.
• Launch your project as soon as possible, fix it on the way.
• Don't try and reinvent the wheel, look at how others are selling and replicate it.

Hopefully, this has helped a few of you and I'd love to see some of the projects you're going to use this method with.

If you have any questions, let me know :))