reddit. I have not made too many changes to it except for few bug fixes. You can still see same version that was used for marketing.
aameezl on
I launched my iOS app Supamail on Product Hunt 3 weeks back. Around 30 paying customers I have now are from there. Haven’t done any paid ads so far. The wild part is people started posting organically on medium, blogs and youtube about my app which gave me more users.
medazizln on
The pattern I’ve seen work best is starting with a clear ICP and going where they already are. For my first 10 customers, I focused on hyper-targeted outreach – found 100 people who matched my ideal customer perfectly, researched what they actually cared about, and personalized every message.
The product was maybe 70% ready, but I knew exactly who it was for and what problem it solved for them. That clarity made the conversations easy even when the product wasn’t perfect yet.
What’s your ICP looking like?
hedgefundhooligan on
I don’t remember. Fuck I really don’t remember. Think I knocked on a door.
vickys222 on
I directly approached 5 businesses and pitched to solve their inventory problem. Out of the five only one agreed to pay me to build them a solution. I had no product back then. I went every day to the client’s site and observed and tried to understand how their business worked, what was important for them to manage their inventory and how their employees worked. I then tried to create a solution which would be easy for the employee to use and fit in the businesses current way of working. It took me three months to deliver the product.
In similar fashion, i repeated this process with the next client and the next one. I then began to see the similarities and started designing a generic product which could be adapted for any business within a few hours of setup. Today, ai am using the same knowledge and working with one of Europe’s amazing startups that is working on creating an automation solution for small businesses, while I continue to service and sell my inventory and invoicing management solution.
Small businesses have the most significant problems in organizing their work and systems and they need solutions that into their processes easily and quickly.
cloudinthemind on
Marketing budget!
Snapdragon2016 on
When we started **Snapdragon Hemp**, our first customer actually came from a local
community event , someone curious about the potential of hemp and open to
learning more about cannabinoids like CBD and THCA. At that point, our product
wasn’t perfect; it was still very much in the “refinement” stage. But what we
did have was transparency, passion, and a willingness to listen and adapt.
That early feedback
shaped how we approached quality control, education, and customer experience
going forward. It reminded us that progress doesn’t always start with
perfection ,it starts with trust, honesty, and the drive to improve every
single batch.
For us, that first
customer wasn’t just a sale; it was the beginning of a community built on
shared curiosity and collaboration, values that still guide how we operate
today.
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reddit. I have not made too many changes to it except for few bug fixes. You can still see same version that was used for marketing.
I launched my iOS app Supamail on Product Hunt 3 weeks back. Around 30 paying customers I have now are from there. Haven’t done any paid ads so far. The wild part is people started posting organically on medium, blogs and youtube about my app which gave me more users.
The pattern I’ve seen work best is starting with a clear ICP and going where they already are. For my first 10 customers, I focused on hyper-targeted outreach – found 100 people who matched my ideal customer perfectly, researched what they actually cared about, and personalized every message.
The product was maybe 70% ready, but I knew exactly who it was for and what problem it solved for them. That clarity made the conversations easy even when the product wasn’t perfect yet.
What’s your ICP looking like?
I don’t remember. Fuck I really don’t remember. Think I knocked on a door.
I directly approached 5 businesses and pitched to solve their inventory problem. Out of the five only one agreed to pay me to build them a solution. I had no product back then. I went every day to the client’s site and observed and tried to understand how their business worked, what was important for them to manage their inventory and how their employees worked. I then tried to create a solution which would be easy for the employee to use and fit in the businesses current way of working. It took me three months to deliver the product.
In similar fashion, i repeated this process with the next client and the next one. I then began to see the similarities and started designing a generic product which could be adapted for any business within a few hours of setup. Today, ai am using the same knowledge and working with one of Europe’s amazing startups that is working on creating an automation solution for small businesses, while I continue to service and sell my inventory and invoicing management solution.
Small businesses have the most significant problems in organizing their work and systems and they need solutions that into their processes easily and quickly.
Marketing budget!
When we started **Snapdragon Hemp**, our first customer actually came from a local
community event , someone curious about the potential of hemp and open to
learning more about cannabinoids like CBD and THCA. At that point, our product
wasn’t perfect; it was still very much in the “refinement” stage. But what we
did have was transparency, passion, and a willingness to listen and adapt.
That early feedback
shaped how we approached quality control, education, and customer experience
going forward. It reminded us that progress doesn’t always start with
perfection ,it starts with trust, honesty, and the drive to improve every
single batch.
For us, that first
customer wasn’t just a sale; it was the beginning of a community built on
shared curiosity and collaboration, values that still guide how we operate
today.