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Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

560 points amanchanda | 11 comments | 13 May 25 08:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.713s | source | bottom

I am building a B2C AI SaaS with $50/month price. How would you go about getting with first 100 users and then the next 500 users.

What we are currently doing: 1) Cold outreach to power users - to convert them into affiliates. 2) Cold outreach to individuals who have target ICP communities. 3) SEO for more long term (not for the first 500)

1. cosbgn ◴[13 May 25 10:28 UTC] No.43971450[source]▶
I run a small but fairly successful "embed chatGPT on your site" widget https://rispose.com

I'm acquiring customers by:

- Offer a 100% free unlimited solution (with branding) I get a lot of daily clicks from people coming from my customer's website

- Offer a really good price. My competitors are about 5X more expensive. I'll eventually maybe raise my price, but for now I have a lot of people switching to my tool

- Affiliates. This is something new I'm still testing.

In summary a good free product which links back to you get's you millions of requests per month!

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2. Etheryte ◴[13 May 25 10:52 UTC] No.43971552[source]▶
I've seen a number of products like this and I'm somewhat curious: how do you handle the security side of things? Do you have a server to shield the API keys and proxy all requests?
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3. cosbgn ◴[13 May 25 10:54 UTC] No.43971563[source]▶
Yes, all requests pass by our server.
4. jwblackwell ◴[13 May 25 11:18 UTC] No.43971669[source]▶
Your site would look way better with mx-auto max-w-7xl :)

The content is far too wide on big screens

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5. cosbgn ◴[13 May 25 11:31 UTC] No.43971734[source]▶
thanks, fix is already live!
6. econ ◴[13 May 25 14:14 UTC] No.43973222[source]▶
Well done, an offer impossible to refuse.
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7. cosbgn ◴[13 May 25 14:20 UTC] No.43973298[source]▶
Exactly, offer something truly polished together with a very good price and ideally vitality built in.
8. akoboldfrying ◴[14 May 25 01:38 UTC] No.43979819[source]▶
Nit: Are you maybe German? You write "10.000" in a couple of places on your landing page, where native English speakers would expect to see "10,000".
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9. cosbgn ◴[14 May 25 07:46 UTC] No.43981976[source]▶
Italy/Finland! - Fixed, thanks!
10. prakashn27 ◴[14 May 25 13:24 UTC] No.43984249[source]▶
How does this work? Does all files that I upload are in context or do you use rag?
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11. cosbgn ◴[15 May 25 08:07 UTC] No.43992881[source]▶
Both, you can choose between documents (added in context) and files (RAG). It's explained fairly well in the dashboard once you login.