Launch your startup: A step-by-step guide on how to get your first 1000 users

Hey @yakattack, I'm the author of that blog post. Thanks for sharing it (again) on IH

help i want to start but i dont know how

Thank you for sharing.
This may help me to gain new signups.

This is really helpful! Are the Beta Listings for free? Thanks.

WOW We really needed this we just finished making our dev company https://criov.com/ and we were struggling with the launching part
thank youu

I definitely learned about the usefulness in launching. The experience with the first Hacker News post is something to be learned as well. The article is full of so many things to be learned.

Thanks for sharing this. So helpful to have all this info in one place. Literally just what I was looking for. Bookmarked for future.

I definitely learned some of these things the hard way. It's easy to get carried away in the beginning and buy a website and logo and swag etc. with money you don't have, and then you quit your job, and before you know it you're broke and don't even have a profitable business. Key takeaway: Don't spend money where you don't need to.

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Great content @yakattack! A lot of learnings in there!!

You list quite a few traction channels (social, SEO, PR), which channel do you recommend a company should be hyper-focused on? Which channel worked primarily for UserBooster?

Thanks for this thread which will help me to launch my first SAAS 🙏

This was super helpful for me! Currently trying to figure out how to start gaining users so I'm really glad I found this and appreciate all the resources 😀

Also, it helped silence some of the doubt in my head which is amazing

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Thanks for sharing an amazing post we will follow these points for our SaaS Project.
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Nice work

This is super insightful. Thanks

This is a great article. I've got a product idea and mediocre coding skills. This article has given me food for thought and a good framework on how to proceed. Thanks.

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Super interesting insights!

As a builder myself, I can only agree with the "Start on day 1" advice, although it can be very tedious, challenging and frustrating sometimes! But it's worth gold when the product is finally there!

i like how to stratified growth efforts depending on the stage. It's very relevant!

Thanks for sharing with us, such a great piece of information!

Thanks for sharing! It'll be super helpful for me as well!

Thanks for sharing this. We have started a startup. Check it: https://appticz.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-script

Thanks for sharing!

Nicely done and very informative! Thanks for sharing this amazing content

Thanks for sharing great content.

One comment on whether to "quit your job" or not. I know that's an oft discussed topic here. I have some thoughts on it, having recently quit my job before I even had a landing page finished :)

First of all, there's many different kinds of jobs. One huge mistake I've made in the past is prioritize a high paying job over a job that gives you enough breathing room to work on your own stuff. I bought into the Blind culture where you chase maximum TC. But if you want your own projects, you need a job that gives you "work-life" balance which for you will be "work-side project" balance.

Secondly, in theory you can do all the building and validation and get revenue stream before you quit your job. I know that can work, I know people have done it, but I think they're both superhuman plus they managed to find the niche where they can make money with something simple, which is hard. Launching any high quality product is hard. Its hard full time so really really really hard part-time especially if you have a demanding job and/or a family (I had both).

I think there's another option which is "cut costs, save money" then quit. Yeah there's a risk you can't find a new job especially in a recession, but if you're a coder, I just think unless there's a true apocalypse, someone will pay you to write code. Maybe not your dream job but your dream job isn't working for someone else anyway, so who cares? And even if you really do want a high paying fancy job, in my experience the job interviews have gotten so insane that you benefit a lot from prepping for them. Being unemployed but smashing the interview might help you more than being employed but struggling with it.

So basically I'm saying, quitting your job is underrated. It's tough advice to give anyone cause of course it comes with a huge set of risks. Nobody wants to tell someone else to quit their job , then that person fails, then can't find another job and things start to get financially ugly. I don't deny it's a riskier path. I just think it's not necessarily as risky as it sounds , and might improve your odds of staying full time indie hacker significantly.

Gold, pure gold. I added it to my review list for the upcoming launch. Thank you!

As someone who's just starting to even think about starting my own business I found this article really helpful, kudos to you!

Thank you for sharing. Glad i found this read, helping me stay. on track.

Thanks for sharing great content.

Great Post!! Thank you for sharing this. So beneficial to have all this information in one vicinity.

Very good post, thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing, it's so helpful.

Thanks for sharing this info - useful! Like the idea about "smoke screens" and using pricing pages with buttons to waiting lists.

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