0 to 45K users in 12 months: Our journey πŸš€

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πŸš€ We wanted to build an AI-powered productivity assistant. πŸ“§ Prior to development, we launched a simple email newsletter and landing page to collect leads. We promised daily emails with habit suggestions, which we coded in 5 days. (Check out Insumo 1.0 launch at my Profile) 🌱 We obtained ~1000 organic leads with launching on Product Hunt, BetaList, and Reddit to generate interest. πŸ’° With the traction gained, we secured a pre-seed funding round from investors. πŸ“± With the funding we launched our iOS app, as our target audience and 80% of paying users are on iOS. πŸ’» We did Performance marketing on Facebook, Snapchat etc and brought in 25K+ more users. πŸ“ With paid traffic also resulting in organic traffic which bumped us to 35K users. πŸ”We later started playing the SEO game, wrote content in various platforms and mostly on our website www.insumo.io. Kept creating content on social media, created podcasts called "Habit Talks" and kept talking with our active users which helped us to gain 10K users. 🧠 Our focus was to acquire mostly free users, learn from their behavior and needs, and launch our AI-powered web app. πŸš€ Now We're preparing for the public beta launch of our web app.
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Laodis Menard
Super interesting, thanks! Would you say the value of customers from Snapchat is as good as from other channels? Having the same dilemma with TikTok (lots of curious people out of our target)
Shayan Norizadeh
This isn't easy, you should be proud of yourself!
@shayan_norz Thank you☺️
Shreyas Iyer
Congrats! Great to hear about your remarkable product journey. Also, I really love your website!
@shreyasiyer Thanks!
Anna Svirshchevskaya
Congrats! πŸš€ There're some questions below about your first leads whom you promised daily emails with habit suggestions. Different hacks and habits take place in various mailings - have you done something fundamentally new in emails (any non-standard moves)?
@anna_sv Hey Anna, thanks for the question! Yes, we asked people to integrate their google calendar and promised that we would suggest habits around their existing schedules. Hope this helps😊
David Allworthy
This is brilliant, well done! This is exactly what I’m about to do with my new web builder. I’ve almost finished the landing page to collect emails for feedback and proof of market and traction. So your post is incredibly helpful to me - thank you!
David Allworthy
I’m brand new to starting up a saas. Where did you go to find pre-seed funding from investors? I’m trying to create a roadmap. Thanks
Eleven
awesome πŸ‘
Twikc
This is wonderful
Ronje Dawkins
Inspired!
Ayush pathak
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