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

274 points jainvivek | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 18:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | source

Please also share target audience to correlate better.
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_kush ◴[19 Oct 24 05:35 UTC] No.41885854[source]▶
Reddit.

1. I made an app for the colorblind in 2015 and got my first 100 (and more) users from the r/colorblind subreddit.

2. I made a breathing app in 2017 and got my first users from r/breathing, r/breathwork, and r/meditation subreddits.

3. I recently made a productivity app for the mac and got my first users from r/macapps subreddit.

Reddit is incredibly powerful if you are building something niche and are already a part of the community. Also, the results are compounding because some of my posts get good SEO traffic so I still get a handful of users from Reddit every day.

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1. hahnchen ◴[20 Oct 24 03:27 UTC] No.41892648[source]▶
But dont subreddits have rules against advertising and stuff
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2. jainvivek ◴[20 Oct 24 10:20 UTC] No.41894367[source]▶
Answer is already there in this thread.