We acquired most users by recruiting on IndieHackers, Facebook Groups, promoting on BetaList, and my own social channels (YouTube, Instagram, Twitter).

Leverage on the name of your competitors

Customer support

Listened to the feedback of our users

Listening to feedback Competitor ads Personal customer support Leveraging our product

Narrowed down our target audience One thing I can highly recommend is to narrow down your target audience. Think big, start small.

We were in private beta for 3 months. During this period, we listened carefully to the feedback of our users and started building core features for them to solve their problems. This actually already resulted in the first upgrades.

Private beta launch + paying beta users