Hey, Daryna, thanks for making this video. We have been around for 21 years and I have learned from your video. We are based on South East Asia, I am wondering if you might consider offering your solutions over this part of the world. If you do, I'd love to explore. Thank you.
I was starting to feel overwhelmed and questioning if I might be in over my head with my startup, but your words have truly reignited my hope. Thank you so much! ❤
Great video, thanks. One question - at the very end you said "I was on Medium - bad idea." Are you saying being on Medium was a bad idea, or waiting as long as you did was a bad idea?
That is super inspiring!! I'm also looking for beta users by posting everywhere, DMing ppl in slack groups one by one and spamming all of my LinkedIn connections 😂
Where do I even start :) Tbh those were pretty simple "spammy" posts that looked like ads. I made enough of those that folks must've flagged me. Lesson learned!
Thank you, this was great. Currently at the step 1, trying to get free beta users :d Texting connection sounds great, doesn't that mean you require phone number to sign up though? Did you put it like an optional dialog, where it promises that you are not going to use the phone number for marketing etc?
In our case, since we are building OpenPhone and using OpenPhone, we'd send a text message within our own product to say hi and welcome new users. In your case, you can do several things. Maybe send a welcome text message if folks opt-into SMS. (the opt-in can be a part of the sign up flow). When asking folks to opt-in, you can mention what they're opting into
This is a story about what worked in 2018. A lot has changed. Not guaranteed that this playbook if followed will bring customers like it did for OpenPhone back in the days. Defining ICP very narrowly is the actual answer to scale from 0 to 100 or 1000.
Fair enough and yes, that's our story from 2018, but I do share about being a lot more precise with ICP as my #1 thing I'd do differently so I do agree with you there. I also share upfront that we're a horizontal product serving many industries and use cases intentionally, so we went into this knowing we'll be building something for multiple personas. Some folks may not want to build a horizontal product and not all of what worked for us would be relevant to them.
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Hey folks! Hope you enjoy this video :) Lmk if you have any questions or feedback!
Great video, thanks for sharing!
thank you so much for making this video, it's a lifesaver!
Hey, Daryna, thanks for making this video. We have been around for 21 years and I have learned from your video. We are based on South East Asia, I am wondering if you might consider offering your solutions over this part of the world. If you do, I'd love to explore. Thank you.
Really good marketing advice. Its not so much about the solution as it is getting your product out in the street and in the hands of users.
I was starting to feel overwhelmed and questioning if I might be in over my head with my startup, but your words have truly reignited my hope. Thank you so much! ❤
so happy to hear it!
I have search for notifer and I don’t even know what I am looking for
Great video, thanks. One question - at the very end you said "I was on Medium - bad idea." Are you saying being on Medium was a bad idea, or waiting as long as you did was a bad idea?
That is super inspiring!! I'm also looking for beta users by posting everywhere, DMing ppl in slack groups one by one and spamming all of my LinkedIn connections 😂
great vid
Thank you so much for this
This is great, thanks! Yeah already got kicked off of a subreddit - those mods don’t play 😅
Glad this resonated and yeah that's a part of the journey :)
Wow! This is super valuable. Will share with my own portfolio of founders.
Glad to hear it and thank you!
Wanted to hear more about the posts that got you banned 😜
Where do I even start :) Tbh those were pretty simple "spammy" posts that looked like ads. I made enough of those that folks must've flagged me. Lesson learned!
Thank you, this was great. Currently at the step 1, trying to get free beta users :d Texting connection sounds great, doesn't that mean you require phone number to sign up though? Did you put it like an optional dialog, where it promises that you are not going to use the phone number for marketing etc?
In our case, since we are building OpenPhone and using OpenPhone, we'd send a text message within our own product to say hi and welcome new users. In your case, you can do several things. Maybe send a welcome text message if folks opt-into SMS. (the opt-in can be a part of the sign up flow). When asking folks to opt-in, you can mention what they're opting into
@@DarynaKulya That makes perfect sense, thank youu!
This is a story about what worked in 2018. A lot has changed. Not guaranteed that this playbook if followed will bring customers like it did for OpenPhone back in the days. Defining ICP very narrowly is the actual answer to scale from 0 to 100 or 1000.
Fair enough and yes, that's our story from 2018, but I do share about being a lot more precise with ICP as my #1 thing I'd do differently so I do agree with you there.
I also share upfront that we're a horizontal product serving many industries and use cases intentionally, so we went into this knowing we'll be building something for multiple personas.
Some folks may not want to build a horizontal product and not all of what worked for us would be relevant to them.
@DarynaKula, why did you say "bad idea" when talking about blogging & medium?
good question! Instead of blogging on Medium I should've started our own blog on the website so we can get our domain reputation established
I am a customer. happy one but looking for alternate now since I need voice notes capability in texting. :/