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Stop trying to pour gas on something with no flame. Compose individual, truly personal emails to each of the users who have signed up so far. Ask them what they
by troydavis 6y ago
Stop trying to pour gas on something with no flame. Compose individual, truly personal emails to each of the users who have signed up so far. Ask them what they were expecting to get, what they got, and what software-related problems they have. Open your heart to them - explain that you're committed to trying to understand and improve their daily work and would love 5 minutes of their time to chat.
This will take at least a month, maybe two or three. Don't submit anything else to HN or elsewhere until you've heard from them and adapted your site.
Start here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6g-how-to-talk-to-users https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6g-how-to-talk-to-users, https://www.ycombinator.com/library/66-biggest-mistakes-first-time-founders-make https://www.ycombinator.com/library/66-biggest-mistakes-firs.... Watch the other intro videos that basically boil down to: ask your users to tell your their problems, rather than forcing your solution on them. Everything else - money, user growth - comes after your product is thrilling 5, then 10, then 20 people. Go ask your users what would thrill them, then go thrill 5 of your existing users.