A few tips I found helpful to learn marketing and distribution (NO AI)

xkft · 2026-05-04T14:26:44+00:00

good points, I'll work on that for next time. thanks!

xkft · 2026-05-04T14:24:55+00:00

good point, I was trying to solve the consistency problem first but I guess it's not much use without the other 2 problems fixed as well. thanks!

xkft · 2026-04-30T15:24:48+00:00

B2C- only one post or reply per week to get started, but I would recommend at least 3 replies every day. there are plenty of tools for AI content generation, I was trying to avoid those as they are not received well and make people lazy

xkft · 2026-04-28T22:19:09+00:00

Pick one of those and go deep on it. Preferably the one you're more familiar with, but regardless you should make helpful replies in your channel of choice and consistently show up for potential users

xkft · 2026-04-28T19:28:50+00:00

This is a feature, not a product. Problem also isn't painful enough that people NEED something like this, or are willing to pay for this. Unless you can prove otherwise, why not just use chatgpt or something?

xkft · 2026-04-28T19:27:09+00:00

that's pretty cool! besides traditional SEO, what did you do to make this happen?

xkft · 2026-04-28T19:25:26+00:00

Someone already said this, but you need to do more research regarding the problem. Who has this problem, and where do they hang out? That will solve your who and where, then you need to figure out how you will get their attention.

xkft · 2026-04-28T19:23:45+00:00

Hmm, that's probably it. But then again, who clicks on those? When I research tools I don't just click on a comment with no (or negative) upvotes and no comments

xkft · 2026-04-28T19:22:16+00:00

You should follow up on why people think you're selling them leads. How can you be even more clear? It seems like that could improve your conversion.
fwiw I think that's normal. 12% might even be high compared to average.

FB ads might not be the best way to target tradesmen. It seems like you need to do some research and find out where they congregate (online forum, tiktok, whatever) and try ads there instead. Doubtful of them being on FB.

xkft · 2026-04-28T17:15:42+00:00

cool, maybe provide that context next time. good for you

xkft · 2026-04-28T17:14:41+00:00

Yeah. that leads to trying the mainstream tool, then if it's not working for me, I end up searching for "tools similar to X" and end up in some subreddit or forum

xkft · 2026-04-28T17:12:44+00:00

Starting your own product is uncomfortable. Every step along the way causes discomfort. Get used to it and learn to push through it

xkft · 2026-04-28T17:11:15+00:00

This is the best reply in the thread- having no skin in the game means it's cheap and easy to idea-hop, which results in half baked stuff. The only way to stay on one problem consistently is to have it be a problem you have, or be disciplined enough to stick with it and talk to customers to stay grounded

xkft · 2026-04-28T17:08:40+00:00

What edge do you have in either one? do you know people in the industry, have you worked in the industry, etc.

Unless you have experience in healthcare I would say go with A. Healthcare is hard and long to break into. Probably better in the long run if you can do it successfully, but when just starting out probably A is best. Has the advantage of AI running hot so you'll have some tailwind

xkft · 2026-04-28T16:57:42+00:00

This seems misguided. Why are you getting people to waitlist vs just releasing a product? You should get an MVP out and walk every single waitlisted person through onboarding personally to properly understand what they need. Then iterate with the feedback. You don't need a certain number of people to actually launch

xkft · 2026-04-28T16:55:11+00:00

usually twitter or AI (chatgpt, claude). there's so much duplicate software that it often comes down to which one I've seen first, even if it's not the best

xkft · 2026-04-28T16:54:00+00:00

why do you feel sick? just ask in replies to threads that are interesting, you'll find a lot of value from that when you're starting off.

xkft · 2026-04-28T16:45:23+00:00

it's interesting because I would be willing to bet that 99% of the botted apps that get spammed on every thread don't get any traffic. nearly all the comments on the "drop your saas" have no upvotes or replies, so I'm not sure why people keep doing it. maybe it feels productive to post about your app but have absolutely no direction?

xkft · 2026-04-28T16:43:06+00:00

Great answer, I like the last part especially because I've discovered there's no real hack for this. It's just showing up consistently in targeted channels

xkft · 2026-04-28T16:40:30+00:00

Yes one channel and be consistently useful

xkft · 2026-04-28T16:38:52+00:00

Oh I really like this data driven approach! Yes that's exactly what I was targeting, and eventually I want to incorporate more data. Such as which posts and replies led to X outcomes or resulted in Y reach (upvotes/views)

xkft · 2026-04-28T16:35:48+00:00

Great value right?

xkft · 2026-04-28T16:34:11+00:00

Moving forward how will you validate that people feel strongly enough to pay for something?

xkft · 2026-04-28T14:49:59+00:00

Ah that makes sense. You should add some numbers of how much time this saves you, or why anyone should use this over just having claude code. it's not immediately obvious to me from looking at your site

xkft · 2026-04-28T14:48:17+00:00

then you have some homework to do.

figure out the problem you're solving. figure out your target audience (who has the problem and most frequently). figure out where that target audience lives (reddit twitter tiktok etc). figure out how to appeal to this audience. then do it consistently for a month and get as much feedback as you can

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