Where and how do you find your early adoptors. What worked? what didn't?
Victor Zhang
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I have been working on my side project (a productivity tool) for the past 5 months. I want to find some beta users for my software. With very limited time and resources, how and where can I find my first 100 beta users?
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Nadia Bakir@nadia_jay
Hey Victor, Congratulations on your side project. Start with your friends and family. The most valuable thing you'll need right now is feedback for initial improvements on user experience. I guarantee you will learn a lot about your own platform from only 1-10 users. 😀
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@nadia_jay Yes, friends, old colleagues, college mates. I have tried those and highly recommend any other founders to use any sort of personally relationship. The con of users from personally relationship is subjective bias.
I first started by working with existing communities on Discord. This allowed me to avoid marketing costs, and receive valuable feedback from traders of all backgrounds who were a perfect sample of the target audience.
@socialtrade Do u mind share some existing communities on Discord with me ? Big thx!
Launching soon!
As someone working on SaaS, I used LinkedIn by searching people with that suits my target profile and contact them, Twitter by DM-ing target customer and Facebook by joining a community
If you're working on a d2c product like (a productivity tool). I would suggest to go to reddit & hackernews.
You could post in Show HN first then post in related subreddits (however before post anything on subreddits, read the rules first)
Good luck
@distartin Yes, I am working on a productivity tool (d2c); I have found communities such as: https://www.reddit.com/r/product... https://www.reddit.com/r/PKMS/