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I feel like you should hand select your first 25-50 users, a user base that size will give you plenty of feedback. Once you've done that, I suppose it's time t
by auston 17y ago
I feel like you should hand select your first 25-50 users, a user base that size will give you plenty of feedback.
Once you've done that, I suppose it's time to get more serious about acquiring users.
- johnl 17y agoYep, feedback would be the key for me.
- benologist 17y agoYeah we've been 9 months in development and ~6 months in private beta, got a few dozen users who've really helped shape the direction of the system and turned it into something amazing. It's really the "what happens next" bit that I'm not sure about.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoI'm not a fan of stealth or private beta. I think the best plan is to not have a beta launch.... just start organically collecting users. No one of significance will notice your software sucks, but when your software is good, investors, customers, and partners will notice.
- benologist 17y agoIt hasn't really been "stealth", it's been "controlled", it's an analytics service (not for websites) and we wanted to be sure it worked + not get raped by traffic we couldn't afford to scale for during development.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoI think your fears are unwarranted. Every entrepreneur seems to have these happy fears. Oh no, what if my site crashes under terrific load! What if super-VC Paul Schmaltz sees a bug in my website! Even if you get enough traffic to knock down your server, that will just be a boon. And it's better to get your software out there half-working and get feedback than to build something nice and have to rebuild it after you find out the average user wants something else.
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