Startup User Acquisition

Cute, I like it.You should consider some simple avenues to get sales before paying the huge equity cost of getting someone else to do it for you.- Get all of your friend's employers to use it (even within subsets of their business)- Write some blog articles about what you learn and post them on HN- Get some blog coverage about your product- Even pay for some ads or adwordsYou might also find a cofounder as you drive up your traffic.What (I think) you need to do now is to sto

Let me explain the title: I can help you acquire your first 100 users for $0, I just need you to tell me what your product is.I’ve developed a tool to help independent developers acquire users.Here’s how to use it: 1.Click the link below and log in. 2.Enter your product’s website URL. 3.Get a complete marketing plan (just like one created by a marketing partner). 4.Choose to execute the plan or modify it. 5.Monitor the results in the dashboard and see how many people start visiting your we

Let me explain the title: I can help you acquire your first 100 users for $0, I just need you to tell me what your product is.I’ve developed a tool to help independent developers acquire users.Here’s how to use it: 1.Click the link below and log in. 2.Enter your product’s website URL. 3.Get a complete marketing plan (just like one created by a marketing partner). 4.Choose to execute the plan or modify it. 5.Monitor the results in the dashboard and see how many people start visiting your we

I am dealing with this right now.For me, this "post HN" or "pitch Techcrunch" simply doesn't work. To receive HN upvotes you have to Show HN a product very specific to tech hackers crowd - my product is a product social network, I am sure no bootstrapped private social network would receive any attention here. Show HN small, neat, open source projects go much better than "try my product" Show posts. And for TC you would have to be much more high-profile than me. Like eing one backed by a famo

Marketing is essential and the biggest problem with most startups. And I'm a founder in a startup that suffered for a while from lack of new users.If you have the money, you should try advertising in places you feel that will bring you customers. But you probably knew that and don't have the money ;)Well, having a partner that has some background on marketing would be good. Also, posting on hackernews and similar sites can give you a small boost shorterm. But you've obviousl

Hi Muzani,So I do not even want to get to building at this stage. I just want to get a landingpage in front of the right folks, collect some emails, and see if I can talk to them. I have some broad ideas on products I'd like to work on but have made the mistake in the past many a times before where I just start building something people do not really care about. So right now I am trying to figure out the best way to just get in touch with these people. I have done some AdWords (freaking

I once read 'If you build it, they won't come'. I think this is the case for most people. Getting people to your website or service is the hard part, not the development. We're all in the same boat here. For a product such as yours, I can imagine going to events, posting on relevant forums etc... would be your best bet at getting more users. Best of luck with your product, what you currently have looks promising.

As a marketing and business development point of view, when launching, make sure it's worth to pay and persuade individuals for it. I suggest you to try ways for words of mouth marketing through effective initiation. A month without revenue is worth if it's worth the Market penetration.I joined for the wait-list but I didn't got any email. Also, make sure users can contact you too. There's no contact options.Sales is above everything, and it needs some assurance to user

At my startup incubator they are always reminding me to talk to customers.Why not try to track down 25 individuals and get them to sign up and offer something?Once you apply what you learn from that and have a decent product then you should think more of the advertising and marketing, everything from posters to ads on local cable tv. "Organic growth" is not enough because you have to get a large amount of participation to make something that is (i) self-sustaining and (ii) repl

This is cool!I would ignore everyone who's repeating the same sort of standard startup advice or saying "blah blah doesn't xyz already do this". A lot of startup advice is bad / actively harmful, your thing is pretty good, and you should just do it if it's fun.Because you're on HN, you're about to get a good bump. In a few days, that bump will go down, and you might start to feel sad! Ignore this sadness and keep pushing through. The time from when p