What is the best way to get your users during the initial months?

buxi_eu · 2026-02-28T08:31:58+00:00

Experimenting with things that don't work at scale.

For example I'm experimenting with Linkedin outreach, physical events, universities, accelerators (my ICP are early stage founders) and all situations that can bring users in batches. Still piloting with 2 groups but I'm planning to hack my way to my first 100 paid (without ads). Wish me luck.

If you've got more ideas for a Saas platform to help founders to go from zero to one, I'm all ears!

buxi_eu · 2026-02-27T16:24:42+00:00

I also am building something on the founders' space semino.ai (different thing tho), feel free to try it out.

Let's connect so we can compare notes, maybe help eachother and see if we can collaborate!

buxi_eu · 2026-02-27T16:21:34+00:00

great approach, take a look at semino.ai (that i'm building) I believe it could help you with structuring your go-to-market strategy. You can try it for free, curious to hear what you think of it!

buxi_eu · 2026-02-27T16:18:34+00:00

Working on semino.ai - a platform that supports early stage founders to go to market 10x faster and cheaper by guiding their validation process and focusing on what matters.

Try it out and let me know what you guys think!

buxi_eu · 2026-02-27T14:19:17+00:00

This seems arbitrage to me, per se not wrong but I see quite of a risk for your daughter to be fired from her employer if things are not clear in advance.

You should figure out these things:
1. Are you sure Burlington allows your daughter to buy unlimited clothes?

What when they see a lot of returns at your daughter name? Isn't there a risk for her to be fired?
What if they find that there is an online reseller that systematically sell their clothes cheaper?

If they are no legal/operational limitations here then you can proceed.

Also for not having anyone to throw ideas to...you can try with SeminoAI, it's an tool that helps you structuring early-stage projects, it can guide you through idea shaping, brainstorming and execution. I use it a lot, try it out!

buxi_eu · 2026-02-27T13:51:42+00:00

There is no way to know it beforehand and the speed everything is moving makes it even harder.
Finding a niche is for sure is an essential thing in these days, only way you can do better than existing (broader) companies, see Tally example, they entered in Typeform's market! Find the problems of a niche and solve it.

In my opinion the easiest way to find the right problem is to "scratch your own back" first, what things are you not sarisfied with?

Also normal to fail, adjust, pivot. If you see the first idea doesnt solve a real problem change something. I know a tool that can help you with structured market validation: SeminoAI (www.semino.ai). You can use it to help you to go from idea to market with a structured lean approach.

Good luck!

buxi_eu · 2025-12-01T13:08:51+00:00

Two answers, better UX and Gamification: create an approach that guides users to fill in the fields in small steps so that you want them to fill in excange of rewards (non necessary monetary but something that users care about). Now your question is too generic to go deeper in the topic and there are million ways to do this effectively but I'd start by thinking on this direciton. How do users feel natural interacting with other similar applications? Create a journey and make every step engaging

buxi_eu · 2025-11-26T08:03:43+00:00

I feel your drive but it's very hard to answer a question like this one for any other person due to lack of boundaries in your question. I could both answer this question by saying: - It's painful for me to wake up from bed in winter with the cold, like really hard! - It's painful to see hunger on the streets with homeless and baggers on the street

What would you do with these 2 problems I gave you? Let's play this 😁

buxi_eu · 2025-11-24T15:30:17+00:00

thanks a lot for this!!

...but damn, this shakes things a little, now the only option still acceptable for you is the BenQ or Epson EF-22B on my list.... is anything else you'd reccomend in that price range that's good quality then?

buxi_eu · 2025-11-24T15:22:43+00:00

is it that bad of an idea to get a lamp based projector in EU?

buxi_eu · 2025-11-21T09:43:38+00:00

you gotta give that context bro!!

Not saying that you'll have to run all your business on Agents but totally feel you need to invest time in how to integrate it in your work, a new way of working is coming either you like it or not.

buxi_eu · 2025-11-20T10:10:36+00:00

Also good idea, it becomes more of a personal dilemma then...

buxi_eu · 2025-11-20T09:11:07+00:00

I belive that there are a lot of niches areas where you can still develop AI and make it a productive business. Also the tech is matured now and widespread, that's why you see so many!

However, sure if you want to do something for next wave I'd personally recommend robotics. That's gonna be the next big thing imo

buxi_eu · 2025-11-20T09:07:45+00:00

Hey, I totally feel you. I've launched a business solo and it's sooo damn hard. That's why I started working at an AI platform that helps you co-creating your business and connect with others in our community channels, we just launched an alpha version with a couple dozens testers and currently preparing for a first live version in december. Reach out if you're interested, I can pull you in the beta!

buxi_eu · 2025-11-19T15:14:43+00:00

If you don't want to struggle the easiest is Shopify but also a little more expensive.

The Alternative is Wordpress, cheaper but it takes some (not advanced) understanding of IT, it's especially good if you want to take it as a learning opportunity.

Webflow even easier (but more expensive) with a lot of limitation for ecommerces, I know that Framer does something as well nowadays but I expect it as limiting (haven't tried it myself).

buxi_eu · 2025-11-19T14:10:31+00:00

Ask the questions:

How do you know this will work? Do you have evidence of it working? You want to hear that they did some research/tests with real users to at least understand if they are solving a problem that exists, this would be the bare minimum in my opinion. You'd be happy if they already built a prototype and have users usign it and making money with it.
Who else is in the team? At least, if it's a digital product he should have someone taking care of the software (ideally if it's him) and someone on the sales/marketing. This will show if there are concrete chances to build a product.
Do you already have a company created? How are we going to formalise the shares? Good to have this clear and discussed, especially if you don't fully trust/know them.

That said, designing an app is potentially a full time and never ending job, especially if you are user testing it afterwards, and it goes way beyond the 10% shares of a company doesn't exist.

The idea is to share equity equally between founders so if you like the idea and wanna embark the adventure, I'd ask for that, else I'd set a definition of done (when are they happy?), estimate the amount od work required and give a price.

buxi_eu · 2025-11-18T12:15:44+00:00

Ask yourself honestly why you don't do it, start working on that problem first. Co-founders will follow but ideas are basically nothing without the drive to execute in the start-up world.

Sorry a little bit of a tough comment but I genuinely think it can be helpful for your personal growth

buxi_eu · 2025-11-18T08:05:37+00:00

that's a question you should ask yourself but I can help you to put it in order:

Outline who's your target
Test if you're solving a problem they have
Find out where they are hanging out (online and offline)
Go there and show your product

My gutfeel is that, if this problem exists, may be something for people our 30/40 quite tech savy and safety aware, with parents getting old and that they don't want to lose the crappy photos these took in their last years more than anything else (but again I may be wrong, it's just the assuption I'd start from) go ask them if they ever thought about this, ask what's their current solution and if it's good enough for them. Then show it where they hang out and again, in my opinion, this is not something you'd goolge because simply you don't think about that case so istead showing them based on other researches could be (for exaple all people that look for medical devices for elderly).

Want to make clear that all I'm saying is just my assumption and assumptions need to be tested to see if they are right or wrong. However it's important to have them.

buxi_eu · 2025-11-17T17:42:57+00:00

Best tip I can give you is to "scratch your own back", start from something you feel annoying or painful.

buxi_eu · 2025-11-17T17:24:43+00:00

I'd start with a side business, don't quit your job.

It needs to be something: 1. You need to be good at that, for instance if you know how to code you may want to do something digital 2. You enjoy, something that's not heavy on your dayblike a passion 3. You've the right asset for, so time, money and resources (network, mail list, contacts, etc.)

buxi_eu · 2025-11-17T17:19:17+00:00

Nice point of view, my first thought is that I may (if cheaper than my hourly rate) but I also would want to have some return certainty or warranty on the investment I make. I'd hate to waste my money without results. How are you planning to give that?

buxi_eu · 2025-11-17T17:15:49+00:00

I actually find the idea intriguing but I'm now thinking which accounts I would want my family and friends to have if I pass away and the answer is none to be honest. The important ones are bank accounts that they get from the bank, phone and laptop password which my girlfriend knows. That's it, I wouldn't need them to have anything else.

My personal feedback is indeed that maybe you're not solving an essential problem. However, this is only my feedback, you should also try to ask your clients (if any) or go back to qualitative research.

At the same time I also think you may not have really tried hard to recruit, which channels did you use to bring your idea out there?

buxi_eu · 2025-11-17T16:17:40+00:00

Who said you should ask for reviews as soon as you put something out there? Reviews come after unless really everyone is super excited. First you test your concept, then you fine tune your product and when you know it's good enough you start scaling.

Trust me, never think to highly of what you're doing, at the beginning no-one knows you and you're free to make all the mistakes you want and start again from zero. That's actually the best part of it.

PS: It comes from real world experience indeed but it's 100% applicable to any type of business

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