Flow State
Every weekday, two hours of music perfect for working.
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February 17, 2019
100 paying subscribers
- Solve a problem you have yourself
- Use free product to attract leads
- Constantly solicit feedback from users
- Once you identify a real user want/need, adjust your product to satisfy it
- Attend to your users; reply to their emails
- Do it with love
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Oh interesting to see people pay for that! How long has it taken you to get to 100?
It took two months – Substack has a great conversion funnel
Congrats! Out of curiosity, aside from substack, do you have something else on your tech stack?
Congrats!
How do you get users to email you?
We have a lot of installs, but users generally don't email us. We've even tried to reach out to them but no reply.
Flow State is an email newsletter, so I just encouraged people to reply. I explicitly asked for feedback in about 20% of emails. You have to repeat yourself because people don't open every email and they might skim and miss it.
I get stuck on the 2nd step, how to attract leads so that you can get enough users to get feedback?
Started by signing up a few friends and then it was a slow drip from there until Lifehacker wrote about it (unexpectedly). That writeup caused a spike in subscriptions (that got me past this milestone).
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I connected with Stripe so you can see
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