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>I'm wondering how you go from 0 users to your first 1,000 users, especially if it is for a service that is not really similar anything else. You don't approac
by run4yourlives 16y ago
>I'm wondering how you go from 0 users to your first 1,000 users, especially if it is for a service that is not really similar anything else.
You don't approach the problem backwards, that's how.
A "product" without a need is like an answer without a question. You should always have, at minimum, at least 1 user that finds the product useful before you even develop anything.
Assuming you have a least one person who is having a problem solved by your product, the issue then becomes to find other people with the same problem. Your product should sell itself to them.
What problem does your service solve?
Who has that problem?
Go introduce your problem to them. If this model doesn't fit for whatever "but, but" you can come up with, I would humbly suggest abandoning this product and focusing on another.
- jwegan 16y agoWell the product does have a need. It is a replacement for something I've been doing in an ad-hoc way for a while now. I would use what I'm planning on making even if it never took off, but I figured it would be pretty cool if I could get other people to use it too. It is a tool oriented toward programmers and from what people have been saying it seems like you just have to get it out there and also combine it with a little advertising for things programmers might search for.
- trafficlight 16y agoWhy don't you just show us what you've made? We seem to be your target market anyway.
- jwegan 16y agoI plan to :), but I just started working on it. I figured I would solicit feedback from HN when I finish in a week or two once I have an initial version.