Pay Bounties Only for Verified Active Users
Pay Bounties Only for Verified Active Users is a partnerships & affiliates tactic for getting your first users: Recruited outside growth hackers and affiliates and paid them per result, but only once a referred user crossed a real in-product engagement bar, not on raw signup.
It's a strong fit for Consumer / mobile apps teams, and works especially well for games and consumer apps with a clear engagement event. As a partnerships & affiliates play, plan for high effort and expect results to arrive at a steady pace, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Partnerships & affiliates
- Best for: games and consumer apps with a clear engagement event
- Effort: High
- Speed: Medium
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does partnerships & affiliates work for this?
Tying money to proven activity instead of signups kills incentive fraud and only pays for users who actually stick.
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