Tips to get the first few users?
I just launched Forty. What typical channels do you all start using to get those crucial first couple users?
I've been posting here on IndieHackers as well a bit on Twitter. I've found it tricky to find specific places to post on Twitter. Most related hashtags are other businesses trying to sell similar software.
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Some things:
Change Sign up to 'Start your 7 day trial'
Change $2/month yearly to "$24/year" and add "$2/month below"
Who is your real target audience? Is it people using it for business, personal or both?
What are your competitors doing? Copy that
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What are some Subreddits you can post this to?
Which Quora questions can you answer?
Which Facebook groups are related to your product so you can post there?
What kind of content does your target audience want to read?
What other similar tools (not direct competitors, but related tools people might use) that you can partner with?
Which startup directory sites can you post to?
Just spend 1-2 days figuring all those questions out. Create a Gdoc and answer each of them with 7-8 bullet points. Then turn that into a strategy:
And then go from there. Be shameless about it. If you have a good product, people will check it out. Get out there, find your users. They want you to help them find you, so focus on that.
This is really helpful Frank.
No problem. Keep me updated on the progress and feel free to reach out if there's anything I can help with so you can focus on doing the right things and grow :)
EDIT: Just realized you're not the one who started this thread, my bad. But, my offer still stands for you as well!
Get active in a community where you target a niche. If your target audience is freelancers there are probably 100 different solutions to try as well. If your target audience and product are adjusted to freelancers in medical care it makes it way more interesting for those people to try your software. Pick a community and niche and provide as much value as you can in that place, not only concerning time tracking.
I had no luck on PH, posting on Reddit/Twitter worked but was super slow, so I ended up making a Facebook ad and paid around 2$ per user.
You could start here on IH. I recall there being some people recently asking about time tracking software. Go see if you can add value to them?
Also, just generally participating in communities and being helpful will help people remember you and your product.
Try out ProductHunt, email marketing, and of course posting your product on IndieHackers. Reach out to as much people (who you think would need your product) with out seeming annoying and ask them if they would need something like this. Hopefully they will and BAM 👊! You got a new user!
If it helps, I'll signup, see how I like it and I'll help promote it.
Have a nice day! 👋😄
This is good advice. Thanks.
Yeah I've been thinking about ProductHunt, just wanted to make sure all the kinks were out before officially launching on there. Thanks for all the info!
I like Twitter for this sort of thing, but it really helps to have built up even a small audience. I think developing your personal account and brand is really useful for when you launch, instead of trying to do it using per-product accounts. Daniel Vassallo covers this really well on his tweets: https://twitter.com/dvassallo