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74 posts and articles about getting customers, grouped by topic. Each one links to the original on X. The numbers belong to the authors. Last refreshed 2026-10-30.
Launch boards
Getting seen on launch day, and what to do after.
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Places to get your first 100 users: 1. Reddit 2. Indie Hackers 3. Hacker News 4. Quora 5. Product Hunt 6. BetaList 7. AlternativeTo 8. SaaSHub 9. Side Project…
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How to get the first 100 users for your startup 1. Launch everywhere. Product Hunt, DevHunt, BetaList, Peerlist, Indie Hackers, etc. If a platform lets you…
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2 years ago, i had done zero marketing. i'd been an engineer my entire life. when i told a founder friend we were building a consumer product, he told me,…
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I built a $26,000/mo programmatic SEO portfolio that operates with no employees. If you want to get into pSEO this year, here's how I would do it from scratch:…
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Copy This UGC Strategy, It'll Make Your App Go Viral
1M downloads, 60-person creator team Jay launched nomadtable, a solo‑traveler meetup app, with more than a million downloads but no initial creator network. The challenge was classic for social
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The moment every indie hacker fears has come... I have less than $80 left in my bank account and I'm stuck in Brazil (far from home) I'm going to share how I…
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How to get your first 100 users from reddit without getting banned
i've helped startups get their first 100+ users and reach $10k mrr through reddit while doing so, i also got banned a couple of times. so this guide is based on my personal experience let me first
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I grew my newsletter from 0 to 10,000+ subscribers with a 59% open rate and 23% CTR… in 6 months. Here’s how I did it. Plus what worked, what okay worked, and…
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ChatGPT is Changing Which Page Types it Cites in AI Responses (New Peec AI Data)
Wow, I found this VERY interesting: Tomek Rudzki from Peec AI just shared some brand new data with me regarding ChatGPT's evolving search behavior with the launch of 5.6. Earlier this week, I
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How to launch your SaaS and hit $10K MRR
SaaS founders have a nasty habit of “validating” their ideas for 9+ months. Which is why most get lapped in 72 hours by some highschool dropout with a laptop… You have an EXECUTION problem. But
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I've always wanted a definitive guide on how to successfully launch on @ProductHunt—and now I have one. I convinced Leo Bouener (a top PH consultant who's…
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How to Build a Startup Without Funding by Pieter Levels Launching is the key to validating if your product is actually useful and can be monetized. But how do…
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How Zapier, Product Hunt and ConvertKit got their first 100 users (A THREAD):
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We've helped startups generate 100M+ views. Here's the exact playbook we use to launch on X (steal it): 1/ Build something people want. If your product sucks,…
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Launching on ProductHunt and making it rank high is not that hard and also repeatable. Just need to follow process. Recently we launched a dev tool that ranked…
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Building a Chrome extension? Keep these in mind: 1.Solve one clear pain 2.Use one keyword to target 3.Launch fast, polish later 4.UX > UI — speed > beauty…
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Reddit can be a goldmine to promote your product but very likely you'll just get banned immediately. I can totally get why to some people Reddit marketing…
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Let's say you have a working product. No audience. No marketing budget. No existing customers. Just you, your product, and 30 days. How do you get your first…
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Need your first 100 customers? Start with these places I've been thinking about the hardest stage of a startup: going from "I built something" to "100 actual…
Distribution in general
How to think about getting customers.
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10 years ago, I started my first SaaS company. In that time, I’ve grown it to $33.4 million in annual recurring revenue. Here are 10 lessons I’ve learned over…
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distribution 101: how to sell your products
the consensus on AI twitter right now is that BUILDING is the skill worth learning... and while that's true, building has gotten so easy that the product is rarely the bottleneck anymore. everyone is
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How to go from 0-10k a month in under 30 days (I've done this 3 times)
How to Scale Your App to $10K/Month (Easy Mode) You clicked on this because you want to build a mobile app that actually makes money. Not a portfolio piece. Not a "someday" idea sitting in your notes.
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Is SaaS dead? This guy made $20K in 30 days with a 65% profit margin. +918% MoM growth. And he only has 380 followers. Congrats on being the #3 fastest-growing…
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The 5 ways to scale your app
I've scaled multiple apps past $400,000/yr and it always comes down to the same 5 marketing channels, in this guide i'm going to show you step by step how to abuse all 5 to scale your app lets dive
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How I built a $300K ARR consumer app in 8 months
It’s now more easier than ever to build a software business with AI. In this article, I’m going to go through my exact process & journey building a $300K+ ARR consumer app in the healthcare space. I
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This is how you scale your app to $10k/month without knowing how to sell
AI has made building apps so easy that the hard part is no longer coding it. It's getting people to see it. This is where most new founders struggle. They ship their app, post a couple of videos, get
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The 7 ways to scale your app
Rork made shipping apps easy, so today, anyone can build a mobile app now. So in this article, we will break down in detail the 7 ways to scale your app based on case studies of some of the most
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Good Products Die in Silence
How to Build Social Effect That Actually Distributes TL;DR The moat it's what people repeat about you when you’re not in the room. In crypto, you can ship something solid and still die - quietly, with
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Distribution is not a moat. Execution is not a moat. Brand is not a moat.
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how Outrank went from $300 MRR to $300k MRR in 15 months
I want to tell you the full story of Outrank. because there are real lessons in it - about spotting a broken product with potential, about what makes a business resilient in an AI world, and about why
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THE DISTRIBUTION ERA
The iconic B2B software companies of the next decade will build distribution from day 0. The moat just moved, and we’ve entered the Distribution Era of company building. The shifting moat of B2B
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What we learned building a SaaS from $0 to 2,000+ customers in less than a year
Hey everyone, I wanted to share how we went from $0 to more than 2,000 paying customers for our SaaS in around 10 months while building in a very crowded market. I hope some of this can be useful to a
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Marketing IS the product now. The product is the DOWNSTREAM of attention. This is the line worth pulling out of the whole piece. For two decades the playbook…
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SaaS isn’t dead. Bad SaaS is dead, and it always has been. Because the best SaaS companies don’t establish moats because of their SaaS. They establish moats…
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What 6 Months of Building a SaaS Taught Me
I spent the last 6 months building Promptmonitor. Here's what I learned: 1. Early growth comes in bursts: we barely had revenue for first few months. We were stuck at the same MRR for months, nothing
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The state of moat discourse is rough right now. Some people say there are no moats anymore (which isn’t true). Others talk about things like speed or…
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the hard truth about scaling a SaaS as a solo founder with a day job: you can't outspend the funded competitors. you can't out-engineer them either. the only…
Short video
Short-form video for products.
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TikTok Marketing Masterclass
When I first started building apps, I never understood how all these people on X got so many customers. They did not look that different from me; simple indie app builders. Yet somehow they were
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We spent $0 on ads and got 250M views/month for a single app. Here's the exact playbook.
Most app founders think growth means Meta ads or Google UAC. We took a different approach. Over the past 18 months we've scaled 6 apps to 7 figures using only creator content, UGC on fresh accounts
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How to run a 50M views/mo UGC program to scale your app
UGC is the #1 marketing channel for apps in 2026. the top apps making millions per month do UGC you can only run UGC succesfully once you realize Virality is not luck its engineered. We've seen
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new pod with @JosephKChoi just dropped where we talk about lots of this playbook tldr; 1. tiktok organic is the most underpriced distribution right now. 2.…
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here's exactly how my app will cross 100,000 users by the end of 2026: this is the UGC flywheel method: I started posting UGC content on 3 of my own Instagram…
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Every indie hacker is trying to grow on Twitter. It's pretty crowded. Want to stand out? Try other platforms. Like TikTok. Here's a cool case study for you:…
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I completely agree with this. A few months ago I was talking with @maubaron and @ErnestoSOFTWARE about why so many indie hackers seem to get capped at a few…
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I Grew a SaaS to 5,000,000 Users in 15 Months Without Spending $1 on Marketing (Full Guide)
I built a creator monetisation tool 15 months ago. Since then: 5,000,000+ people have used it. And I've spent exactly: $0 on paid marketing. No Meta ads. No TikTok ads. No influencer campaigns. No
Getting into subreddits without getting removed.
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How To Promote on Reddit Without Getting Banned
Reddit is the most underrated marketing channel for startups. But 99% of founders get it wrong. They spam links, get banned, and say "Reddit doesn't work." Here's the exact playbook that got me: $40k+
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$10k MRR Playbook : How to make people care on reddit
Most founders think Reddit marketing is dead. They're wrong. They're just doing it wrong. I've spent 8 months mining Reddit for clients, content ideas, and community feedback. Generated 50+ qualified
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How I got my SaaS cited by ChatGPT in 30 days using Reddit comments
ChatGPT didn't mention my product 30 days ago. I would ask it for the best tools in my category and get the same list of big names every time, and I wasn't on it. Today it cites my SaaS for multiple
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How to promote your product in Reddit comments (the right way)
Reddit comments can be an incredible way to promote your business, but it's easy to get banned if you're not careful. Most of you probably try to jump in, drop your product links, and wonder why your
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Reddit marketing done right: Most accounts get banned by dropping links. Instead: → Provide value first, mention your tool by name (no link) → Warm up…
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You can promote on Reddit without getting banned I call this "no bullshit" strategy I find posts where my product can help the author, comment, just straight…
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I Analyzed 1.5M Reddit Posts. Here’s Why You Are Building the Wrong Product & Why You Must Validate
Most founders approach the act of creation in reverse. We fall deeply in love with an idea, retreat into a cave to spend weeks or even months bringing it to life through code, and only then do we step
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“Reddit is dead” is a myth. How to promote on Reddit without getting banned: - Don't spam - Share progress and stats - Don't over mention your product - Reddit…
Cold outreach
Email and DM outreach that gets replies.
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programmatic seo 101 for your company that you think needs SEO but had a DA of 3 and actually needs cold email and paid ads but whatever here's how to do it go…
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I run cold outreach for B2B companies across 15+ industries. Cold email is not dead. What's dead is the way most people do it. What's actually working: -…
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most cold email fails because of what it asks for: 30 minutes, from a stranger, in message one. a buyer needs 7 to 13 touches before they'll talk money. most…
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how a $20M+ founder turns job posts into meetings
we got on a call with the founder of a Series B AI-native CRM that's raised $20M+ and is eating its market right now... and he walked us through his outbound playbook his buyers all have one thing in
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Here is the framework for the ideal cold email structure. I’ve been able to optimize this framework to get 60%+ opens and a 5%+ reply rate PER EMAIL across…
Search (SEO)
Search traffic that keeps working after you post.
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It's crazy how a no-coder like me can generate SEO traffic and conversions using only AI. 1. Programmatic SEO 2. Lead generation tool 3. Email capture 0 code.…
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$120k ARR. That's how much this simple Chrome extension to capture full page screenshots makes Vibe coders take note: freemium Chrome extensions are a perfect…
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my friend sent me this screenshot got all this organic traffic for their startup through programmatic SEO programmatic SEO is when you build landing pages…
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Everyone's freaking out about GEO, LLMO, and AEO. After 7 months of running tests across tons of sites… I can tell you this: It's all built on SEO…
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For the past 4 months, I've been doing Programmatic SEO for this @withdaydreamco's client. The results: 40K monthly organic users (and growing fast!) The power…
AI search
Getting recommended by AI assistants.
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HOW TO BUILD A CHROME EXTENSION BUSINESS WITH AI (my workflow) Go to any major platform and ask: what's this website missing? Look for: – What's annoying…
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Nobody Is Googling Your Brand Anymore. They’re Asking ChatGPT
How to get your brand mentioned in ChatGPT, on autopilot Open ChatGPT. Ask for the best tool in your category. Count the brands it names. Is yours one of them? If not, you’re invisible to a
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让 ChatGPT 推荐你的产品，GEO / AEO 手把手0基础小白指导手册
让 ChatGPT 主动点名推荐你，是 2025 之后所有做生意的人都绕不开的新「流量密码」：不再只给 Google 写内容，而是给「会说话的 AI」写内容，让它在回答用户问题时，自然把你的品牌和产品带进去。
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“Number of unique domains receiving referral traffic from ChatGPT” lmao this chart is beyond ridiculous
Newsletters
Email lists and newsletter swaps.
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18 months ago, I started my first email newsletter. I failed miserably and quit. Then 90 days ago, I tried again and have grown it to 21,163 subscribers. Here…
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20 Lessons Selling $20M of Online Writing Courses
Click here to watch the video version of this newsletter on YouTube. Click here to listen to the audio version of this newsletter on Spotify. Earlier this year, we crossed $20,000,000 in lifetime
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There are so many poorly done newsletters/email campaigns. As someone who turned an organization's newsletter w/ 15-20% open rates (quarterly) into two weekly…
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Each newsletter on this list taught me something new. And helped grow my newsletter to 100K subscribers in a year. What else should make this list?
Indie Hackers
Posts about the Indie Hackers community.
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10 things I wish I knew before becoming an indie hacker (learned the hard way)
Before You Start Indie Hacking, Read This The lessons I wish someone had taught me before I spent 3 years building products, making mistakes, and figuring things out the hard way. When I first started
Build in public
Sharing progress to build an audience.
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how i used x premium+ to go from 625 to 30k followers in just 4 months
i told people to go into debt for a 38 dollar subscription and i meant it. four months ago i had 625 followers. today it's 30,629. zero dollars from x to 5,923 in payouts and another 543 from
Try it onBuild in public on X
Extension stores
Listing and growing a browser extension.
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