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Sydney Cohen

What's your master plan to get your first paying user on your current project ?

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I'll start, my project is Axolo.co and we are a tool to help developers ship code faster. We have some users and our plan to get our first paying users is to make something people want ! I will get personnaly in contact with bigger teams and ask them to pay for it after a 2 week trial.
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Arko Ganguli
We are building an enterprise solution in the legal tech space. This is predominantly for law firms and in house counsels, so we plan to start with the law firm of our startup. :)
Sydney Cohen
@arko_ganguli1 great, I would try to get in contact with the person who takes the decision of buying your software as soon as possible and see the reaction from them !
Utsha Sarker
Thanks all for the suggestion. I also come here for knowledge
Junior Owolabi
Refine my unique value proposition to convince customers (SAAS Startups) the tool minizes their risks, saves tem significant amounts of money, and gives them competitive advance. The tool is a research and development tool for SAAS Startups to extract massive amounts of knowledge from their customers to inform their roadmap (not inconvience their customers/prospects) and prototype/test produce/feature improvements with their customers.
Nilova
I have the same question for !Qinaps. We do have some paid customers and about 200+ users at the moment. Its getting harder to scale. It's a note-taking application that can be used by teams I use LinkedIn to reach out to potential users and decision makers. Perhaps i need to sharpen my pitch. I post regularly on Twitter, IndieHackers and PH. I feel that's not enough to explain the value prop of the product. Getting traffic and getting users are 2 completely different stories. Also would you suggest spending money on Ads or high quality video content and so on?
Sydney Cohen
@nilova_pande I would avoid paying ads, what you want is to refine your product until you reach product market fit and then you can spend on ads. Have you tried to reach out to specific communities? Facebook group those days work really well. Also May be quora and all. Or even to companies directly, may be some companies would be more sensible to your solution? The key is to talk to your potential customers as much as possible
Nilova
@chnsydney Hey Sydney, Yes i agree we don't run ads either. I post on a couple of specific productivity / collaboration communities. But I am interested in using the FB group hack. I'll keep you posted on that one :) Thanks for the Idea. I've tried reaching out to CXO's in companies, either they don't respond or are simply not primed enough to listen to an unheard of solution to their problem. So that one is a hard sell..
Luca Rossi
I just released today Momento and didn't get paying customers yet. I think the best approach will be marketing and the product itself! Keep a little of patience and if the product it's great people will start to love it and they'll talk about it!
Poonam Bodhe
nice
Ludwig Henne
I've been thinking about sending hand written cards to the first 100 prospects. Anyone have experience with this?
Vũ Trịnh
Great question, I'm wondering the same as our team are all young and inexperience in this. We are creating a game app, so basically: -The plan is to launch via ad and target user group content on Social media; -After limited content trial (50% levels available) hopefully we could get some pay users for a full game if they like that. *finger crossed*
Artem Smirnov
With my next product I'll do the opposite that @robinkunz suggested: I'll ask the users what exactly they need, then show them the prototype. By the time I have a barely working product, I'll already have a few customers willing to pay me.
Robin Kunz
@artem_smirnov Thats also a valuable approach :) the feedback will be for sure very good. The question is about the business side of it. I wish you the best with it :))
Prateek Mathur
I'm speaking with my prospects each day. In my case it's pre-seed/seed founders where I am not only learning but if there is an opportunity, I get to work with them.
Sydney Cohen
@prateek_mathur Talk to your users is always a good idea.
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