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Ask HN: Developers–How Did You Get Your First Paying Customers?

4•HSK11•2h ago
I Built Pixoate.

Pixoate is an All in one Productivity Design SAAS powered by AI.

The Product is very Good, it has Photo Editor, Remove BG, PDF Tools and many more such tools, people are liking it.

But I am not on any social Media, neither I like Social Media, How do I promote it, I am Totaly stuck now, I spent 1.5 years building it.

Now I came to know that distribution is the main thing , and i am really bad at it as introvert, dont know how to market it.

Any Idea how I can distribute it, It is bootstrapped so no marketing budget as well, kind of stuck to be honest , no idea on how to scale it.

Can you share your stories how you scaled you SAAS to first 100 customers.

Also Please Share your Reviews as Well for Pixoate.com - Are we missing something in terms of Scalability or monetisation

Comments

ls1911•1h ago
For me, paying for featured listings on launch directories (Product Hunt, There's An AI For That, PeerPush and few others) brought immediate, traffic with zero social effort that brought leads to start with.

Its not magic , you will have to work hard to get the users, but at least you will get some quality leads this way.

rosennn•1h ago
I think it all depends on your ICP, because launch directories are primarily browsed by other founders and developers Reddit might be a better option.
HSK11•58m ago
Reddit Posting or comments
HSK11•59m ago
Thanks man
krm01•44m ago
Close circle. Make something for your friends/family/colleagues. The best first customers are those that, right now, are in your phone's address book.
HSK11•38m ago
not sure if they will pay subscription, although they are using it
krm01•6m ago
that's a good signal. Not paying means the value isn't where it should be yet. Focus on that part.
jdebre•38m ago
Watch out for where your users talk. Be timely to the signal. You can use free tools like trysygnal for that.
HSK11•38m ago
let me see to it.
usamar•10m ago
Through Refrence