What would your users do if you didn't exist?
Helping Others is Key to Business and portraying to your potential users that you actually care about their problems. This is a win-win. The success of your product depends on this mentality.
As a maker who is building a business, you need to develop a servant's attitude, especially in the SaaS space. When you can focus on this it will spill over into your business and you can start to come across more genuine not only in yourself but it naturally develops a product-led growth strategy for you where your product starts selling itself.
Go where your audience hangs out and interact with the communities your audience participates in to get an understanding of what sort of issues are normal. What are the trouble spots that you see again and again? Products need customers. Many developers start undeveloped and build a product that doesn't have an audience and then try to market the product to find an audience.
When you start in this direction, you are risking the entire work because it is very difficult to start with the answer and look for the question afterward.
I have gained so much more from starting a small community and being active in communities like this just helping and stop building a selfish business. IF you need some help let me know how to get started building a community or if you're stuck and need some ideas just reach out. I'm open to sharing the things I did (community building, management, copywriting, yadyadyada).
- What are your thoughts on this?
- Have you experienced growth from this?
- What are your issues right now?
Lay it all out.
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This mentality has led me to my current project where I'm building tools that improve audience management and growth for indie makers. Tools that scale your helpfulness and value, in turn, helping you grow your business.
What do you think about this?
https://www.babilbox.com
my users would just use other existing community platforms. slack, discord... so many of them: http://yeniverse.com
Yea exactly,
I’ve been thinking about Positioning a lot lately and where my product fits in the market? www.babilbox.com . Then came up with some sort of visual to represent this.
It took me forever to go deep on this. I asked my self what would users be doing or using if i didnt exist? Then I created a list of these things:
Manually send a different post to many communities individually.
Copy and paste one post into many communities individually.
Some type of Social Media scheduler(Buffer, Hootsuite). But these don’t dock into communities.
Build something themselves in Airtable possibly?
I guess the next question would be what are your unique attributes compared to those alternatives?
i don't know if its really about features.
Well then your whole business would be built on if your users can find you before they find your competition.
Its not all about features correct but you have to remember those features are directly connected to the value that is offered.
Fake Feature Example: Community PLatform with an AI relationship builder = the benefit would be creating instant relationships among your users' members without having to look around for hours to feel part of the group.
In my opinion, you have to have something unique. Maybe its not your features maybe it's your business model or your expertise?
Can you make a business out of a me-too product? Yes, but do you want to always want to be neck and neck with your competitors?
i don't think about competition much, tbh.