How did you land your first customers?

To answer my own question, here's how we landed the first 2 users: 1. Before I was very serious about the idea, I listed our website on Wikipedia within a relevant article. We use a Decision Matrix to enable collaborative decision-making, so I posted the link on that page on Wikipedia. Eventually, got contacted for someone who was looking for a more mature version of what I had built. 2. A networking event for startups - randomly met a person with the exact need we were trying to serve. https://www.producthunt.com/post...

We answered related quora questions and engaged in reddit communities

We were our first customer! Aside from that, we reached out to our target audience directly - individual + personalised cold emails worked for us! Now we grow organically (and we're gearing up for a marketing campaign). Don't be afraid to speak to your target audience directly!

First, I'd find customers (LinkedIn, Reddit, forums, ...) and speak with them 1-2-1 to understand their real priorities.

First customer was our first business 😅 needed paperless.io for our document workflow at mankido.

At https://growcify.com, we received several requests from customers before even launching the product. And at https://localites.co, it was all about community spread.

Hi Dimitry! Well I am planning on launch my SwiftUI package (https://github.com/jevonmao/Perm...) within a few days, and I usually use Reddit, HackerNews, and social media platforms as initial promotion oppurtunities. Great products will bring customers!

By promoting LocalPin on LinkedIn. As you can see our portal is like a local business search engine and everyone can list on it to ind the best dealers for them which is 100% free and business get quality leads. So, a good marketing pitch on LinkedIn is always worth.

Spoke to friends who used similar products already.

💡 Early partnerships with other startups or top niche companies for testing and validating our approach worked incredibly well for us. Especially if your product has free plans or trials that you can extend for some time in favor of getting actionable insights.