What legal documents do you actually need before your first 100 users?
A question I hear a lot from early-stage founders is: “What legal docs do I really need right now?”
In most cases, before reaching your first 100 users, it comes down to a few practical basics—clear Terms that explain how your product can be used, a Privacy Policy that reflects how you handle user data, and simple rules around payments, cancellations, or refunds if money is involved. These don’t need to be long or complex, but they do need to match how your product actually works.
I help founders break this down and create documents that are easy to understand, aligned with their product, and flexible enough to grow as the business scales. It’s usually much easier to set a clean foundation early than to fix things later under pressure.
How did you handle legal setup for your first users, or how are you planning to approach it?
This is a great perspective, especially for early-stage founders who tend to overthink legal or put it off entirely. Framing it around practical basics that match how the product actually works is key. Setting a clean, understandable foundation early really does save a lot of stress later as things scale. Solid advice for anyone getting their first users.
I'd suggest to take the leanest approach always. Be realistic. Does your product require legal info? Are you lossing customers because you are not trustful enough or you are not there yet?
If you have no traction, adding a privacy policy is probably not going to get you customers. It's a +1 in trust, indeed, but not a killer feature in most of the scenarios.
In the end, any legal and serious business needs it. If it takes you less than 5 minutes to add it... then do. Otherwise, think twice about it.
We treated legal like product: start simple, match reality, and iterate once there’s real usage. The biggest risk early on felt less about missing clauses and more about docs not reflecting how the product actually worked.
it depends if you have beta users initially even for 100 users i think privacy policy should do the job ,if your business doesnt directly effect your user's finances like fintech saas or something
i had sme b2b customers at beta ,i never had an issue with just terms of use, terms and condition,privacy policy thats it
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Thanks for the insights!
I'm currently building a B2C app (a digital I Ching reader) that doesn't require user login and doesn't store PII (Personal Identifiable Information) on the server side.
In this case, strictly speaking, do I still need a full-blown GDPR-compliant Privacy Policy, or is a simple disclaimer enough until I start monetizing? I'm trying to keep the site minimalist.