Source Users With a Persona-Specific Ask in Q&A Communities
Source Users With a Persona-Specific Ask in Q&A Communities is a communities tactic for getting your first users: Use a Q&A community (e.g. Replyz) where you post a question, describe the exact background of the person you want to hear from, and matching people respond.
It's a strong fit for teams of almost any kind, and works especially well for early-stage founders doing user discovery. 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 founders doing user discovery
- Effort: Medium
- Speed: Medium
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does communities work for this?
Describing the persona pulls in self-identified matches, and contributing first earns the right to ask without looking spammy.
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