Hand-Pick Targets from People Talking About Your Problem
Hand-Pick Targets from People Talking About Your Problem is a cold outreach tactic for getting your first users: Build a small, high-quality DM list of fast-growing people who publicly discuss the exact problem your product solves, and warm them up before reaching out.
It's a strong fit for teams of almost any kind, and works especially well for Niche products with identifiable power users. As a cold outreach play, plan for high effort and expect results to arrive at a steady pace, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Cold outreach
- Best for: Niche products with identifiable power users
- Effort: High
- Speed: Medium
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does cold outreach work for this?
Pre-existing familiarity plus tight targeting means a tiny list (one paying customer from 15 DMs) outperforms mass outreach.
The exact steps (4)
The full step-by-step this founder ran, what they posted, where, and in what order, plus the watch-outs, is part of the library.
Sources
- Source — IndieHackers · indiehackers.com