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Ask HN: How long did it take to get your first customer?
- masonhensley 15y agoDo you mean... How long did it take to get your first customer? -or- How long did your first customer keep paying? I am assuming the first.
- brucedou 15y agoTitle updated.
- dangrossman 15y agoThe first time around, it was the day I opened the site, since the site was a store and I knew exactly where to get good free advertising for what I was selling. These days, the apps I build are a lot more complex and targeted to very specific business use cases... and I'm lucky to get a couple signups in a month, despite nonstop Google/Bing PPC advertising.
- davidhansen 15y agoFrom launch? Roughly an hour.
- glimcat 15y agoA couple days. I made about $16 before putting things on hold because I was too busy and because I needed to come back with a more scalable model. But let me tell you, that first $16 is addicting.
- fezzl 15y agoFrom pivot or from first iteration? If the former, a couple of weeks. If the latter, 5 months.
- dholowiski 15y agoI'm still working on that.
- MattBearman 15y agoWith BugMuncher it was less than a day , and Hacker News is directly responsible. I posted a Show HN, someone at The Next Web saw that and wrote and article about BugMuncher. On the back of that article I had 5 customers with in a day! Of which I think 4 are still paying customers :)
- aysar 15y agoAbout 2 weeks, my startup was targeted to students at a specific location. Not much marketing was done; besides facebook and flyer distribution.