How To Grow Userbase Effectively?

7 points by stephenou 15y ago ↗ HN

I've ran into confusion that I am trying to know how to reach a bigger audience for my application. Right now, all people I know are using and loving the site, but I can't reach a broader audience (people that don't know me or people that I don't know). Would like to know if anybody who can kindly provide me some advice on this?

More details: http://blog.stephenou.com/post/895527719/growing-userbase

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gdltec 15y ago ↗

Just keep doing what you are doing. I don't know you and I read your blogpost and signed up for the preview. Make sure you talk about it and don't be shy about asking people to look at your app.

Good luck!

Stevenup7002 15y ago ↗

Well I signed up, thought it looked interested after looking at the tour, but when I signed up it just said "DAMN YOU". That might be why you're not getting new users :)

bigohms 15y ago ↗

I'm assuming you are getting tired of your "pre-launch" promotion activities to drum up beta users. At this point, I would suggest: Just Launch It. Get it live, have a great intro into subscriptions, contact bloggers, send press releases, cross-post positive and negative posts on related forums, etc.

Getting on Mashable and some of the larger blogs will get some major traffic and lead to potential coverage elsewhere.