Hold the Product Pitch for DMs After They Ask
Hold the Product Pitch for DMs After They Ask is a reddit & forums tactic for getting your first users: Never name your product in a first reply; help publicly, then share it only in a DM once the person explicitly asks, while hunting threads via daily pain-phrase searches.
It's a strong fit for teams of almost any kind, and works especially well for Founders whose customers vent about the problem on Reddit. As a reddit & forums play, plan for medium effort and expect results to arrive at a steady pace, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Reddit & forums
- Best for: Founders whose customers vent about the problem on Reddit
- Effort: Medium
- Speed: Medium
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does reddit & forums work for this?
Keeping promotion out of public replies sidesteps the spam signal entirely while still capturing genuinely interested people.
The exact steps (5)
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