Having an audience. I had a free online service for many years, so when I added a paid service on top of that, I already had a pool of potential customers.
Depending upon the business, if it is a physical product business then Instagram ads, offline distributors.
And if it is digital/IT/Internet related, then nothing can beat LinkedIn.
I started conversations. Nothing spammy. I responded genuinely and only mentioned my product name where appropriate or when asked, rather than the link – ProMind AI. I also listed the link in my bio, making it easy to find.
Searching for ProMind AI pretty much occupies the first page on Google
Believe it or not, it was on Upwork. I got a few clients there, but one turned out to be very valuable. Later on, he referred me to other clients who provided me with plenty of work.
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We were all from cloud infra world but are building a consumer app. No conflict of interest!
It takes a while to build trust but once you’re in its free and customers are self-selected.
Developers were already using FilePond and I was building Pintura as an add-on.
Great work!
Even though I have a big “karma” there.
But I found them via friends, then now it’s social media.
I will dm my freinds
Still not enough to scale. So we have to employ scalable distribution methods as phase 2.
To give an idea our youtube has 25m views.
Even sometimes, It's best to presell even before building the MVP. Reddit is best for that or any other platform where you've good enough connection
How do you deal with OpenGraph tags? My current solution is to serve an empty page with OG defined and include the automatic redirection via JS.
But I think there must be a better solution.
I’m lucky we have expertise in the team.
This also means we have ways to scale revenue incrementally as we increase bandwidth.
And if it is digital/IT/Internet related, then nothing can beat LinkedIn.
LinkDrip: on YouTube.
Aidbase: on YouTube.
I use it! Great work!
https://bsky.app/profile/chinaza.dev/post/3lbpnbrybxc25
Searching for ProMind AI pretty much occupies the first page on Google
I would assume people are too lazy to search, but it seems they're not.
the key is being helpful first, not pitching. answer questions, share resources, build relationships.
what type of product are you working on?
Email and LinkedIn is too saturated
Also sub-reddits work at times
I know it’s unusual but out of every 10 calls, 1 or 2 will be intrigued
Don't think it would work as well now… but who knows, maybe.
I was looking for the clients who need any internal business software or any kind of 3rd API integration.
That's how it started 🙂