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Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

274 points jainvivek | 4 comments | 16 Oct 24 18:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

Please also share target audience to correlate better.
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upmostly ◴[19 Oct 24 05:59 UTC] No.41885928[source]▶
We just launched a platform to 1-click deploy React apps, among other things, so our target audience are Devs.

This is all very fresh (as of 1 week ago)

- Show HN: Did quite well - Post to Reddit (r/sideprojects, r/saas, etc): Did better than expected. 40 sign-ups to our waitlist over 24 hours.

If you don't have a product ready (like us), have a Waitlist on your landing page. Ours is built using our own dev-tool, so we're showing off the product and collecting sign ups.

It also helped that our landing page looks really good!

https://hypership.dev

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jainvivek ◴[19 Oct 24 07:30 UTC] No.41886258[source]▶
Cool. Images don't seem responsive on mobile though.
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1. upmostly ◴[19 Oct 24 07:55 UTC] No.41886362[source]▶
Thanks for the heads up.

The images on the landing page are off center by design. It's supposed to be quirky/snazzy.

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3. jainvivek ◴[19 Oct 24 07:59 UTC] No.41886378[source]▶
Oh ok. Right side was cut off, so I thought of unresponsive.
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4. upmostly ◴[19 Oct 24 08:05 UTC] No.41886396[source]▶
Valuable feedback, thank you.

Perfect example of form over function, although I like showing a much bigger version of our product screenshots for mobile users. I can't think of a better solution.

To add something else to my original comment: We're going to try Reddit ads very soon. Has anyone used Reddit ads and had a successful experience?

(Basically, we really like Reddit for finding the first x customers)