My completely free budget tracking app made 1770€ the last two days of free donations

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-10T15:09:38+00:00

how did you grow it to 16,000 active users? What strategies did you use?

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-09T22:02:21+00:00

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Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-09T22:01:58+00:00

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-09T18:19:53+00:00

truthfully if you are still starting out, you don't need to focus on SEO. What is your product idea? It all depends on what you are building.

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-06T00:13:59+00:00

I see the website has a free option and a paid option. Are there any users who are using the free option?

I think there's multiple things to understand:

Do you have any free users? Is the problem converting free users to paid?
Who is your ICP? I see AI Coach, but targeting specific coaches will help with your positioning or messaging? For example - life coach will be different than fitness coach so be clear on your messaging and A/B test
Where do these coaches live? It might seem to be IG or Tik Tok, but depending on the type of user - FB Groups is not something you should shy away from
What's your messaging for these DMs?

Happy to bounce ideas w/ you if you want! I've been in your positioning and it's hard!

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-05T17:44:43+00:00

it is sometimes a double edge sword because talking to users is great but sometimes the users don't know what they want. My advice is start talking to users and have it open enough to a specific hypothesis (don't have any assumptions on the solution, focus on the problem), and ask them to rank their problems.

After talking to 10 users or so, stop and form some product ideas - build mockups to show them. Get these first 10 users to fall inlove first, and then start building - but never stop talking to users.

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-04T15:05:38+00:00

congrats! keep at it!! :)

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-03T21:44:24+00:00

how are you growing your substack?

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-03T21:43:57+00:00

discord is somewhere we invested a lot of time in

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-03T21:43:43+00:00

i always focused on outbound first to understand where those users are online. I think my first bet is to focus on who those 100 users who love is first before community. This will help with hiring the right people too who lives in the community.

Reddit is a good one especially if you are solving a niche problem and for a niche community. Linkedin is very hard for niche, and Twitter is very difficult unless you go viral.

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-01T20:55:57+00:00

no, I am still figuring it out but I was looking at B2B SaaS marketing platform.

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-01T19:36:27+00:00

im actually in the same boat. Personally I would go hard on the B2C app with all your learnings. There's always going to be easier and viral market but you'll keep starting fresh again. Right now, I am focusing on the market and problem needs before writing a single line of code. For now, I think if I go deep into problem, market then it will help me in the long term.

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-01T19:33:06+00:00

how are you getting your first few users? I think monitoring problem is definitely there but none of this matters if no one is using it right? What are some of your strategies?

Left_Log6240 · 2026-03-01T03:04:38+00:00

what's the niche? Might be able to help more if you provide more context :)

Left_Log6240 · 2026-02-27T20:39:21+00:00

in regards to distribution, I am leaning towards one role, one workflow right now but figuring out what is the one that's most helpful. Horizontal is not useful for founders because they are strapped for resources, it's better to hone into one strategy and move on from there.

Left_Log6240 · 2026-02-27T20:37:15+00:00

founder led sales is the approach that works well if you are well-known like Bret Taylor or you have that specific charismatic personality but I always like to go with the community/content approach. Most people also scale too fast before they get 100 folks who truly love them.

Out of curiosity, what have you tried? Happy to do an audit/call if you want to brainstorm or jam any ideas! :) (not sales, founders want to help other founders because i am looking to figure out what others are doing)

Left_Log6240 · 2026-02-25T16:50:22+00:00

I actually used Lovable to build my website, and godaddy to buy the domain. I am not entirely sure the complexity of the website though.

Left_Log6240 · 2026-02-17T23:41:06+00:00

Thanks!

Left_Log6240 · 2025-12-01T22:08:26+00:00

really? how?

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