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Hi , I have Your GetArtemis App starred on GitHub. The question is how do You reach out to Your potential audience before You make a sale to them? Where do You

Hi , I have Your GetArtemis App starred on GitHub. The question is how do You reach out to Your potential audience before You make a sale to them? Where do You find them and how do You convince them to Give out their email address? I am trying real hard to network over LinkedIn and I seem to get a measley 1% connection rate. Not at all scalable.

satvikpendem 6y ago
First, I have some questions for you that once I know the answers I can help you better. 1. What problem are you trying to solve? 2. Who has those problems? 3. Where exactly are they located, both physically or in cyberspace? Based on your conversation rate, you are probably doing a shotgun approach or not talking to the people you need to be. Second, based on these answers, do things that don't scale (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html http://paulgraham.com/ds.html). Actually talk to your customers and figure out what problems they have, and what solutions you can give them. In many user interviews, customers will try to give you solutions but that's not their job, their job is to identify their problems, yours is the job to fix them.
dj_mc_merlin 6y ago
Genuine question, why is your comment capitalized like this? I assume english is your first language since it seems naturally written, and it's likely not dictated because no program would correctly write "GetArtemis". So how did it end up like that? Weird autocorrect?
- throwvid19 6y ago
  The conspiracy theorist in me says it's a way of signaling via the (bunk) neurolinguistic programming philosophy, which suggests that emphasizing certain words will evoke a desirable response. (Personal words like "you" and "your", as well as positive words like "give".) The theologian in me says this person writes about/to god frequently and thus treats words like "you" as a capitalized proper noun so frequently that it's autocorrected. The rationalist in me says English is not their first language and spends most of their time writing in their native language which may include different noun forms and so is habitual. And given some spacing and punctuation oddities, possibly an older person. My money is on the rational explanation.
- solarkraft 6y ago
  Hmm, in formal German "you"s can be capitalized. The "give" could just be noise.
- tholford 6y ago
  Another potential explanation: sometimes when I dictate on iOS, the speech-to-text will spit out random capitalizations.

satvikpendem 6y ago

First, I have some questions for you that once I know the answers I can help you better. 1. What problem are you trying to solve? 2. Who has those problems? 3. Where exactly are they located, both physically or in cyberspace? Based on your conversation rate, you are probably doing a shotgun approach or not talking to the people you need to be. Second, based on these answers, do things that don't scale (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html http://paulgraham.com/ds.html). Actually talk to your customers and figure out what problems they have, and what solutions you can give them. In many user interviews, customers will try to give you solutions but that's not their job, their job is to identify their problems, yours is the job to fix them.

dj_mc_merlin 6y ago

Genuine question, why is your comment capitalized like this? I assume english is your first language since it seems naturally written, and it's likely not dictated because no program would correctly write "GetArtemis". So how did it end up like that? Weird autocorrect?

throwvid19 6y ago
The conspiracy theorist in me says it's a way of signaling via the (bunk) neurolinguistic programming philosophy, which suggests that emphasizing certain words will evoke a desirable response. (Personal words like "you" and "your", as well as positive words like "give".) The theologian in me says this person writes about/to god frequently and thus treats words like "you" as a capitalized proper noun so frequently that it's autocorrected. The rationalist in me says English is not their first language and spends most of their time writing in their native language which may include different noun forms and so is habitual. And given some spacing and punctuation oddities, possibly an older person. My money is on the rational explanation.
solarkraft 6y ago
Hmm, in formal German "you"s can be capitalized. The "give" could just be noise.
tholford 6y ago
Another potential explanation: sometimes when I dictate on iOS, the speech-to-text will spit out random capitalizations.