No advertising budget, no marketing team. Just ideas, a little nerve, and a lot of DMs.
Result: 120 users in 2 months.
It's cool. But not yet viral. And that's where it gets tricky.
Because at the beginning, you go after each user one by one.
You make posts, you join discussions, you reply to comments, you contact people.
But you quickly realize that this model isn't scaling.
And then the obsessive question becomes: "How do I trigger word of mouth? The real thing. The viral thing."
If you've already managed to take this leap, to go from "cool little project" to "snowball effect":
how did you do it? Or if you're like me: let's share our tests, our fails and our surprises.