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Ask HN: How do/did social apps get their first users?
Does anyone have any first hand stories of how they got users for their social apps?
- PaulHoule 5y agoUsually some kind of "cheat"; I wrote the registration system for a voice chat application for the Brazil market circa summer 2000. We sent out maybe 30,000 unsolicited emails to a list we bought and got about 10,000 registrations (amazing response rate!) We tried another mailing list which was not so good (had some addresses without @'s) and got hardly any registrations despite sending around 250,000 emails. That 10,000 grew organically to at least 300,000 in the time I was involved.