Promote Where Accounts Are Tied to Real Identities
Promote Where Accounts Are Tied to Real Identities is a social & short-form tactic for getting your first users: Skip anonymous platforms that nuke self-promo (Reddit, Hacker News) and build on identity-based platforms like Twitter and Indie Hackers, where consistently giving value isn't shut down.
It's a strong fit for teams of almost any kind, and works especially well for solo founders building in public. As a social & short-form play, plan for medium effort and expect results to build gradually over time, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Social & short-form
- Best for: solo founders building in public
- Effort: Medium
- Speed: Slow
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does social & short-form work for this?
On named-identity platforms reputation accrues to you, so genuine value compounds instead of being deleted by anon-era anti-spam rules.
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