How did you get your first 100 users?
Aaron O'Leary
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The first 100 users is often the first big milestone when it comes to user acquisition. I've seen countless blogs, articles and of course Twitter threads about it, how did you get yours?
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Daniel Shnaider@d_shnaider
Cold emails
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@d_shnaider How did you find the prospects to cold email? What was your offering that got responses?
@testimonialshq I use this tool: https://www.anybiz.io/ BTW i am one of the founders :)
It is hard and even harder to get to 100 paying customers/subscribers. Trying to get into conversation with your audience on Twitter, Reddit, Slack or Discord is the way for us.
@lukas_soukup1 Hi Lukaš, that is a great point. Would be interesting to hear if you create your own groups and communities our use already existing ones?
@erik_hudak_billdu Right now we are not building our own communities like Reddit/Discord/Facebook or Slack, but I think about it. However, we are active on Twitter (https://twitter.com/sumioapp) and think about starting a blog.
For me it was consistent work to communicate about your product to early adopters
@maksymkuchur what channels did you mostly use?
Some first 30 clients via personal network, the incubator and word of a mouth
Not there yet, but I think cold emails are working good. You've to spend a lot of time prospecting your target customers though.
Content marketing and communities in slack
Personal network and consistent one on one sales
Discord and discord bot/server listing websites. once it started being added to some servers and being used, other users in those servers seen it functioning and had an interest in it.
@erik_hudak_billdu Yeah so for example one of the biggest DIscord server listing sites is Disboard.org- where you can list your Discord server and a description and people can leave reviews on it and join it. When you're listed on this wbesite and have a good description, their SEO works great and is like the #1 result on Google. Here's an example of it; 
There is another website Top.gg who had a successful launch here, where you can list your Discord server and/or Discord bot, people can vote on it, leave reviews, etc. They a #1 result on google as well when it comes to Discord bots.
There is a handful of others similar to these where you just list your server or bot with a description, add images, info, etc. And can "bump" it every few hours so it's shown on the front page if the categories it's listed under.
This is how a lot of Discord servers first start out and gorw their user count
There is another website Top.gg who had a successful launch here, where you can list your Discord server and/or Discord bot, people can vote on it, leave reviews, etc. They a #1 result on google as well when it comes to Discord bots.
There is a handful of others similar to these where you just list your server or bot with a description, add images, info, etc. And can "bump" it every few hours so it's shown on the front page if the categories it's listed under.
This is how a lot of Discord servers first start out and gorw their user count
Mostly through direct contact and personal network. A few through speaking in Agile HR events but currently those are our best channel. For my next products I'm looking into Twitter and communities on Reddit or Discord...
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I'm flat-out bribing my first 15 users today. Wanna know if it works out?
https://www.indiehackers.com/pos...
Trying to achieve this milestone but it is pretty tasking. But i would share you a tip that i noticed. Valuable contents are the key to achieve this. Before i subscribed to do anything, the content triggered it. Am always glued to my mail and i don't like missing updates. Valuable contents would do the call to action.
I started a podcast and then launched an email newsletter on Substack. I was able to launch to those subscribers. I also spent time building a community on LinkedIn.
In my case, it was pure SEO. Of course, I tried other things before that, like spamming my friends a few times a day, lol. That just doesn't work.
Launching soon!
Not easy, but few things that worked for us
1. Launched early access to build email list
2. Started promoting and communicating in relevant communities
3. Special offer for early adopters and working closely with them. Word of mouth begins from there
Good luck. Would be happy to brainstorm for your specific use case :)
We were reaching people directly with whom we had relationships already.
Now testing number of sources, focusing on 2 main per month:
1. Traffic on website from writing content
2. Product Hunt launch
2. Helping people on Reddit, Quora
3. Linkedin posts
4. Referrals
5. Ads on Google
Anything you suggest in particular if we target marketers and products mainly.
Our service help to build no code flows to convert more leads.
Using Facebook Lead Ads turned out to be a wise decision. Having linked my Facebook ad account and iCloud Mail account https://savemyleads.com/blog/how..., I created an integration to automatically send emails to new leads from Facebook and Instagram. I still use this method and it works well.
Forget about your first 100 users, work very closely with your first 10 users, and iterate. It's better to build a product that your first 10 users LOVE, rather than 100 users that like your product. From your first 10 users, you can then identify what keeps them using, and what they like/dislike.
Other things that worked:
1. Launched waitlist to build email list
2. Launch on online communities like Facebook groups and Reddit threads. Reddit seemed to work better for us, but you'll have to launch strategically as you may get banned. Tons of resources out there but here's one to start off with: https://artplusmarketing.com/how...
Honestly, just forcing my friends and family onto the product.
I began to publish my product on Twitter periodically and on some pages where products are listed, and organically they began to use it.