Founders/makers, how did you discover your first 100 early believers?
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By using the product a lot with friends, who told their friends, and these friends ended up becoming the first believers.
Rather than building in public, we built with our believers solely, and we used Discord as a platform for that.
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Friends, family, personal networks. Word of mouth from them. Finding a particular community that resonates with what you're building - they'll become your advocates :)
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Hard nut to crack. Its like starting an engine is very hard once it started and moving just need push and it will move. I think it need lot of patience and hustle.Be ready for rejection even.Its part of game.
By taking an active part in several communities (like slack groups, indie forums, etc.) and helping people on topics we (with my 2 co-founders) had expertise. In our case, it was data. So anything related to data stack questions, integrations, bi tools choice, etc. we tried helping people.
@5harath Back in the day, I use to manually count and cross-reference things like Facebook likes on posts, comments, and shares, with Twitter retweets and responses, those were my main channels in the beginning.
I also use to send so many messages on Facebook to ask for feedback, until Facebook temporarily bans me for some days for 'spam'. I did the same manually sending customized emails to subscribers.
Them I always measuring recurring participation in-person activities, like Meetups, and again cross-referencing with other forms of engagement.
It will always depend on what you're doing and how people get to your message, how they interact with it, and what you expect them to do next.
For Letterflix.com, we (me and @ansarimofid) found the early 100 believer over a period of one year through organic traffic (by optimising the SEO). Out of our first 100 users, the very first 10 were from friends and friends of friends.
Now, recreating the organic traffic lead growth for Blinkstore.in.
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