Wrap Your Product Promo in a Community Question and Poll
Wrap Your Product Promo in a Community Question and Poll is a communities tactic for getting your first users: Post a genuine 'are you doing X?' question with a poll to a niche community, mention you built a tool for it, and make a free trial one of the poll options.
It's a strong fit for teams of almost any kind, and works especially well for indie tools with a clear niche audience. As a communities play, plan for low effort and expect results to arrive at a steady pace, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Communities
- Best for: indie tools with a clear niche audience
- Effort: Low
- Speed: Medium
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does communities work for this?
A question and poll invite participation and feel like discussion, so the soft plug rides along instead of reading as an ad.
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