Run a Crowd-Sourced Growth Relay in the Community
Run a Crowd-Sourced Growth Relay in the Community is a communities tactic for getting your first users: The founder posted a public experiment asking the community to submit specific growth tactics he'd try and report back on, then promised to pass the 'baton' weekly to another commenter's product, creating a recurring engagement thread.
It's a strong fit for teams of almost any kind, and works especially well for early-stage indie products. As a communities play, plan for medium effort and expect results to arrive at a steady pace, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Communities
- Best for: early-stage indie products
- Effort: Medium
- Speed: Medium
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does communities work for this?
Asking for help plus promising reciprocity drives comments, upvotes, and repeat visibility far more than a plain pitch.
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