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Has anyone who posted a 'Show HN' had success with a paid product and no prior audience or following when their product launched? Building an audience remains
by vanilla-almond 4y ago
Has anyone who posted a 'Show HN' had success with a paid product and no prior audience or following when their product launched?
Building an audience remains a difficult business task. It would be inspiring to hear success stories of products which launched with no following or prior audience.
- yboris 4y agoI created Video Hub App and sell about 100 copies at $5 each (originally for $3.50 four years ago at launch). Had no audience, just shared it on Reddit a bit, on some forums, AlternativeTo, and a few random places (never paid). Sold over 4,000 copies in the last 4 years - probably with help of luck (some people wrote reviews of the app) and also probably because people search for "porn hub" as "video hub". https://videohubapp.com/ https://videohubapp.com/ - and it's open source - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
- archagon 4y agoNot sure if this counts, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074488 Admittedly, I had a really hard time getting any traction for this project. Cold e-mailing media folks had some limited success but no sales impact. Same for HN and Product Hunt. But eventually Apple noticed and gave me a banner ad in the iPad App Store, which netted me about $10k overall. Not exactly a success in absolute terms, but it made money with no prior audience.