Previous Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42430923 I can easily say that Buildpad is significantly different to what it was back then. It was essentially just a chat interface back then with different phases. I’ve changed the workflow now to have a canvas, new phases, more sources for validation, research page for validating demand with your target audience, new tools, etc.
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felixheikka commented on Took 7 months to get my first customer. 8 mo to reach $33k revenue. Keep going. · Posted by u/felixheikka
Congrats. What's the product/app? or Website? Missing out on marketing & potential users?
Thank you. Here it is: https://buildpad.io
felixheikka commented on Took 7 months to get my first customer. 8 mo to reach $33k revenue. Keep going. · Posted by u/felixheikka
$33k revenue Stripe image since it's HN: https://imgur.com/a/0aDJOG4
felixheikka commented on Reaching my first 100 users without money or audience (at 10K users now) · Posted by u/felixheikka
Huge believer in providing value first to build a community and brand.
I'm with you there 100%
felixheikka commented on Reaching my first 100 users without money or audience (at 10K users now) · Posted by u/felixheikka
Great story, and excellent example of being intentional about targeting, engaging and building an audience
Thanks!
felixheikka commented on Reaching my first 100 users without money or audience (at 10K users now) · Posted by u/felixheikka
this is cool. thanks for sharing.
was your app paid only or freemium? if the latter, how many of those first 100 went straight to paying?
No problem. We kept the MVP free because we wanted to get more people through the door who could provide the valuable feedback we needed.
It wasn't until around 150 users that we launched on Product Hunt and got our first paying customers.
felixheikka commented on Reaching my first 100 users without money or audience (at 10K users now) · Posted by u/felixheikka
For the curious, my SaaS can be found here https://buildpad.io
felixheikka commented on Reaching my first 100 users without money or audience (at 10K users now) · Posted by u/felixheikka
This seems like it would only work if your product is targeting other founders as users.
> Our absolute first users came from our idea validation post on Reddit.
> It took us two weeks of daily action like this to reach our first 100 users.
Did you distinguish between people who tried it to give feedback and people actually using it?
> This was mainly in “Build in Public” but also in “Startup Community”
I've never been active in this type of community, but it seems like a self fulfilling prophecy.
Feels like a group of people agreeing to follow each other on social media so they can tell others they have X followers.
It works well for products targeting founders since they're very active online. However, there's no problem to find social media communities of gardeners, lawyers, content creators, etc., to be active in.
Not everyone who gave feedback ended up being an active user, but they were all part of our target audience. Otherwise their feedback would've been quite irrelevant.
"Feels like a group of people agreeing to follow each other on social media so they can tell others they have X followers." made me laugh not gonna lie, but it's actually a nice community of founders. Currently at 140k members.