Happy to find Product Hunt!
Hey everyone,
Im Greg, a full stack developer and jr data analytics engineer. I'm preparing to launch my first SaaS after making 10 or 12 products that are in limbo and or abandoned.
I'd love to meet more marketing professionals and community builders than I have in my development circles. I've done marketing and creatives for others before, but never for my own venture. Its different when you are starting from scratch! Hoping this community can help me make my product launch successful. Its a wonderful product that Im very proud of, but with all this time coding and writing tests Ive spent very little time thinking about how to get people to try it.
Im thinking about offering some free 3 month subscriptions or something to anyone who tries it out in the first few months. During that time id be building out my enterprise features more. Does anyone have experience with successful soft launches like that? Or like.. a tiered launch for different market scaling?
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Hi @savevsgames,
Every product, every domain, every launch is unique...
Without trials and errors, there's no sureshot way and maybe what worked for one may not work for the other.
I would suggest you to build your online presence on listing platforms (not necessarily ProductHunt), get some early but genuine users to drop a review (even 2-3 users would be fine), and iterate continuously.
I can point out two product launches that impressed me here: @Creatium and @AI Context Flow
Both were unique in their approach and I think both started from scratch just like you did.
Hope it helps!
P.S. I love trying out alpha/beta products!
Creatium
@savevsgames @ashok_nayak Ashok, thanks so much for the shout-out and your kind words! We really appreciate it. We did start from scratch. :) Greg, I'm always happy to help and pay forward the kindess the PH community showed us. Find me on LinkedIn if you want to chat/need advice. I'm happy to help :)