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A few weeks ago, I started to feel like I had hit a plateau on social media, especially with my Substack newsletter. I couldn t seem to get past a certain number of subscribers (stagnation).
In similar situations, I ve noticed that people often either: run a giveaway pay for ads
I've spent exactly all of last year building a total of 6 products, 4 of which are paid. But I haven't gotten a single paying customer yet. Channels I've tried.
Posting on Hacker News and Product Hunt
Paid ads (Google, Instagram, Reddit)
Listing on tool directories ("ThereIsAnAIForThat.com" etc)
Creating Free tools and sending some related traffic back
Asking a couple of people I know to try my products
Each have given me various degrees of success. Rest assured, I have lots of users using the free parts. Recently I'm trying push marketing; for example recently my girlfriend and I went to a pet-friendly cafe in Bangalore and we got talking with the proprietors. One of them was interested in what I was building and I found myself pitching my product them. I felt icky and weird since all my life I've been a software engineer and hardly ever someone who sold anything. What's your experience getting customers, especially the first ones for your product?
Let s bring back everyone s favorite kind of feedback: brutally honest and weirdly helpful. Drop a link to your landing page in the comments. Then roast someone else s. Keep it real, keep it useful, keep it (mostly) kind
I m trying to figure out how to best use Notion to manage product development, marketing, and collaboration as my startup grows. Would love to hear your setups and tips!
