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Ask HN: How do you get first 10 customers?

18 points jcofai | 1 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.272s | source

Building is super cheap now but standing out among all AI noise has become so hard. I am seeing barely any response to my email and LinkedIn messages. These are not generic messages. They are personalized.

I am hearing similar stories from people I know. May be it is my network bias. I am building following on LinkedIn but I honestly hate it. I hate the facade of putting of expert hat and writing in stupid one sentence per line style.

The bar for customer acquisition is so high right now.

What can I do to get first 10 customers?

Please suggest for someone who don’t have much of a network.

1. Aro_oj ◴[13 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44551439[source]▶
The first 10 customers have to be your close friends and acquaintances. For that push start, they should support you, or else some people become their own first customer to get the number on the dashboard showing "10 sold." Like the RL strategy that works for sellers when someone tells you to park their car in front of their cart to trick people into believing you are their customer.