Where to Get Early Adopters
You started building a product a few months ago and finally got it doing the job. Congrats!
Now you need to test it on real users to get feedback and some satisfaction and become more motivated.
What you need to do is to show it to some early adopters. Not even adopters, to some enthusiasts, geeks. To people, who will agree to suffer your poor UI and use the product through pain and countless errors.
Those are not guys from Product Hunt and Hackernews. Betalist audience also expects something more-or-less polished and presented on a landing page. So where to find such users?
1) Friends.
Pros: they will never say "no". They will test it more or less thoroughly.
Cons: they will never say "you made shit". The feedback will not be sincere.
2) Cozy startups communities (like @solofounders).
Pros: the feedback will be various and honest. Also there are chances to get a good discussion of your product.
Cons: you first need to build trust in the community. It takes months of constant contribution. You can't just break in and get anything you ask.
3) Cold outreach (my favourite).
Pros: the fairest feedback. If you are a good asker (not just spam, but choose carefully whom and how to outreach), there are chances to get not only feedback, but a loyal follower or even a customer.
Cons: it takes a lot of time to find a suitable target and prepare a well-personalized letter to arouse interest. However, the more you practice, the better it goes.
#product #cusdev #launch
You started building a product a few months ago and finally got it doing the job. Congrats!
Now you need to test it on real users to get feedback and some satisfaction and become more motivated.
What you need to do is to show it to some early adopters. Not even adopters, to some enthusiasts, geeks. To people, who will agree to suffer your poor UI and use the product through pain and countless errors.
Those are not guys from Product Hunt and Hackernews. Betalist audience also expects something more-or-less polished and presented on a landing page. So where to find such users?
1) Friends.
Pros: they will never say "no". They will test it more or less thoroughly.
Cons: they will never say "you made shit". The feedback will not be sincere.
2) Cozy startups communities (like @solofounders).
Pros: the feedback will be various and honest. Also there are chances to get a good discussion of your product.
Cons: you first need to build trust in the community. It takes months of constant contribution. You can't just break in and get anything you ask.
3) Cold outreach (my favourite).
Pros: the fairest feedback. If you are a good asker (not just spam, but choose carefully whom and how to outreach), there are chances to get not only feedback, but a loyal follower or even a customer.
Cons: it takes a lot of time to find a suitable target and prepare a well-personalized letter to arouse interest. However, the more you practice, the better it goes.
#product #cusdev #launch