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No, I see those stories in the same way that I see stories about people winning the lottery; it can happen, but it probably won't. Growing slowly has aided me

No, I see those stories in the same way that I see stories about people winning the lottery; it can happen, but it probably won't. Growing slowly has aided me hugely in being able to refine and optimise as I went. If I had the money to throw at marketing 2 years ago, to get loads of eyeballs on the site, it would have failed. Because the product wasn't ready then. It's been 2 years of listening to feedback and making incremental changes that has allowed me to really start growing revenue this year.

showsover 6y ago
Thanks for replying. If you don't mind me asking, how did you get your first users and when did you decide it was worth asking money for?
- gigamick 6y ago
  I decided it was worth asking money for before I laid a finger to the keyboard. Getting first users was really tough. I "launched" on product hunt and that was a bomb. I posted around some forums and that got some attention, but it was a post on reddit that was seen by the owner of a niche forum for audio engineers that helped. He allowed to me to post in their commercial thread and that got me going with a bunch of audio engineers who saw real value in the product. That burst of interest and Q&A gave me a TON of feedback to improve things and add features. Then things just VERY slowly started to snowball. and I do mean VERY SLOWLY. I also get a lot of traffic from organic google searches as I rank number 1 in google for some very relevant search terms. Even outranking soundcloud. Have no idea how that happened. As far as I'm concerned it was 2 years of refining the product. Only in the past 6 months have I seen consistent month on month growth, and it's still very early days.
  - allenu 6y ago
    Did you have difficulties finding places to self-promote? I'm finding that that is a tricky thing to do. I don't want to jump into a community and start selling my product since a lot of places don't like it and it is tacky as hell, so I have to find ways to engage actively and when the the appropriate time comes (i.e. the conversation would naturally allow it), bring up what I've made.
jxm262 6y ago
This is a brilliant perspective. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.

showsover 6y ago

Thanks for replying. If you don't mind me asking, how did you get your first users and when did you decide it was worth asking money for?

gigamick 6y ago
I decided it was worth asking money for before I laid a finger to the keyboard. Getting first users was really tough. I "launched" on product hunt and that was a bomb. I posted around some forums and that got some attention, but it was a post on reddit that was seen by the owner of a niche forum for audio engineers that helped. He allowed to me to post in their commercial thread and that got me going with a bunch of audio engineers who saw real value in the product. That burst of interest and Q&A gave me a TON of feedback to improve things and add features. Then things just VERY slowly started to snowball. and I do mean VERY SLOWLY. I also get a lot of traffic from organic google searches as I rank number 1 in google for some very relevant search terms. Even outranking soundcloud. Have no idea how that happened. As far as I'm concerned it was 2 years of refining the product. Only in the past 6 months have I seen consistent month on month growth, and it's still very early days.
- allenu 6y ago
  Did you have difficulties finding places to self-promote? I'm finding that that is a tricky thing to do. I don't want to jump into a community and start selling my product since a lot of places don't like it and it is tacky as hell, so I have to find ways to engage actively and when the the appropriate time comes (i.e. the conversation would naturally allow it), bring up what I've made.

jxm262 6y ago

This is a brilliant perspective. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.