First newsletter subscriber!
by rayharrisToday we got our first user to signup for our mailing list! We did this by sending out a blast to all the users of an old iOS budgeting app project to let them know we had started something new. We had never formally sunsetted that project, and now we have. 2 birds, 1 stone :)
Email Stats
293 sent
280 delivered
112 opened
14 clicks
1 new signup
We used mailchimp on the old project and are trying out substack on the new one. https://oots.substack.com/p/coming-soon
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Hi Ray I love the concept and value prop of Oots. I'd love to explore partnering with you to launch a deal on pitchground.com that could get you a few 1000 paying customers in a short time period with zero cost to you. Let's chat? [email protected]
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Hi Rohit, thanks for your encouragement. That said, your message is coming across as spam to me. Here are the reasons:
- Your comment lacks substance in regards to my project. I can't tell if you've even spent 1-2 minutes thinking about it
- Your suggestion that we might be interested or ready for a few thousand paying customers is way off base. We don't have a single paying customer, let alone a paid plan or product-market fit yet.
I would advise coming up with a few stump-messages for projects at different stages. At the stage we're in, we need to learn about getting initial exposure and user feedback moreso than scaling adoption. It would be nice to be aware of projects like pitchground, but at my current stage I really just want to have a awareness of a list of such marketing avenues in my backpocket, rather than pressure to sign up now.
Second, I would advise adding more substance to your comment about what interests you about our project. You haven't convinced me that you didn't just copy paste that message, so I can't trust the intention isn't spam. This is especially important for potential projects that are more qualified; maybe check out others on this site who report non-zero revenue or have priced plans available. Then you can reach out to them with relevant commentary on how you think their pricing fits what you've seen succeed on your platform and other meaningful.
Lastly, commenting on a project's milestone with the primary purpose of pitching your own project is, I think, antithetical to the idea of community. You should be sending these messages via email or something else.
Best of luck to you and the rest of the folks at pitchground, Rohit!
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