first1K - Inspirations to take your launch to the next level

Thanks for putting the effort into creating this. I'm always on the look up for pages that aggregate best strategies for launching products. What are your next steps with this?

📜Background Before launching any product, we always feel the need to smoke test, to understand whether the problem actually exists or not. People conduct this smoke test in multiple ways, one of which is through waitlists. Any time we decided to make a waitlist for a product, we had to do a lot of research to see what kind of landing pages and waitlists were out there to ensure we didn’t make mistakes owing to a lack of research. It is also very important to see what the first version of anything was like before it iterated to become what it is today. Going through origin stories serves, not just as an inspiration, but also as a motivation for the ones launching. MVPs, launch strategies, and waitlists, all serve as means to a perfect launch. ❓Why? After having done this multiple times, we recognized a gap in the market. We realized that if there was a directory where all the top-class waitlists, launch case studies, and origin stories were in one place, it would make the research process a lot smoother, and a lot less time-consuming. So we came up with first1K. 🤔What more, you ask? It’s always interesting to see what these tech giants, who rule the world today, like Google, Amazon, Adobe, and Microsoft Windows, were like when they first started. What did the MVPs of these legendary companies look like? What did they start as? With first1K you get to explore interesting things like: Twitter was named Twttr and was an internal service for Odeo employees. Basically, what we see Twitter as today, was *not* how it was started! 👩🏻‍🏭How does it work? 1. Click on the top right icon to log in 2. Scroll down and select the tags according to your liking 3. Make your personal collection by clicking the heart icon 4. Subscribe to our newsletter 5. Buy us a coffee if you enjoyed the process 😊 💭Final thoughts... first1K. It's in the name. It's a tool that will give you inspiration to make the best and lean first version, ensuring you reach your first 1000 users with the least amount of friction. Apart from waitlist inspirations, it also helps you build effective launch strategies by showing you the best of the best. You will get access to the best case studies out there, ensuring that you avoid rudimentary mistakes as a first/second-timer.

Congratulations on your launch! It's great to see how first1K provides valuable resources and strategies for entrepreneurs. What inspired you to create this product?

Wow, this sounds amazing! 🤩 I'm so excited to explore the waitlists, launch strategies, and origin stories of some of the biggest tech companies. Can't wait to start my journey with first1K! 🤗

Definitely useful resources, great work @sara_intikhab1

Congrats ✌ Loving every inch of it. Would love to see some Pakistani/Indian examples as they are rare to find.

This looks great! congrats on the launch :)

Interesting collection

Congratulations on your Launch. Great resources🚀

this is super useful. congratulations!

Love the amazing response from the PH community. With your support, we want to make first1K the go-to place for launch inspirations 🚀 If you have any good launch resource or startup origin story bookmarked somewhere, please share it with us here: https://airtable.com/shrEzrGpeMW... Thanks!

A lot of interesting growthahcks and launch ideas for getting your product off the ground. Good work!

I was looking into something like this. Would help me a lot in launching products. Great effort guys 👍

Hi there! Thank you for checking out First1K 🎉 The first launch is very important for any startup or product. It captivates your audience and introduces your idea to the market. We wanted to help founders and innovators get a better understanding of how successful companies have released products in the past, and what their waitlist or MVP versions looked like. Hence, we present First1K to the public! An all-in-one repository of waitlist inspirations, launch strategies, and origin stories. We hope this will help you gain inspirations from successful launches so yours can be a big one too! Happy Launching 🚀

Great resources🚀

This information is very useful for launching a successful product and is exactly what we need at this time.

It's a good idea to see the first versions of the great product and know how to mark first 1000 users. Good Work.

This will be a useful tool. Looks good. Congratulations on the launch 🎉

Thanks for the valuable resource!

I really liked the whole website. I'm looking forward to my first launch and this will be extremely helpful for me! On top of that, I love the section about waitlist ideas where I can see how successful companies did it at the beginning. I once thought about building something similar to this but focusing on how the web design of those companies improved throughout the years, but this focused on the launching and strategy is excellent and a great resource too. Congrats!