I'll go first. A large HR platform sent out an automated AI-written email offering condolences on a prospect's coworker's death, and then tried to hook them into a demo.
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?
Hey Product Hunt! This morning I launched my first solo product ever: Controol a minimalist finance app built around one idea:
Know how much you can spend, not just what you already did.
No team. No paid ads. No launch list. Just late nights and building something I personally needed. I honestly didn t expect much but hours later, it made it to the Top 5 of the day
The feeling? Wild. Strangers are connecting with the mindset behind it, and it's been amazing to read their comments.
A few of us at Product Hunt are putting on our most brutally honest (but helpful!) hats and roasting landing pages for the next two days. Want in? Drop your link below, and we ll give you real, no-BS feedback on:
Clarity Does your message make sense or sound like corporate soup? Calls to Action Do we feel compelled to click, or just leave? Design & UX Smooth experience or rage quit territory? Anything else Tell us what you want feedback on.
