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

559 points amanchanda | 2 comments | 13 May 25 08:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.406s | source

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)

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curiousigor ◴[13 May 25 13:49 UTC] No.43972988[source]▶
Built a free product (https://heymeta.com) to solve my own problem and posted it here on HN and Reddit as well as Product Hunt (that was in 2018 when it was still relevant).

Currently getting 15k/unique/month (it has dropped a bit less, but steadily getting up after the rewrite and bigfixes).

When the website doesn't have sponsors, I promote my other free macOS tool (https://dockey.publicspace.co) (with a donation option) that get quite a nice flow of visitors from it.

I'd call this a success, although it's not enough to pay the bills or anything :)

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1. 2YwaZHXV ◴[13 May 25 14:09 UTC] No.43973169[source]▶
https://www.heymeta.com/sponsor/ returns a 404 currently... is that expected?
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2. curiousigor ◴[13 May 25 14:34 UTC] No.43973433[source]▶
It shouldn't and doesn't for me at the moment. Is this still the case on your side?