Subscribr · B2C · AI scriptwriting for YouTubers
Email your list weekly and personally ask each subscriber about your app idea
Feedback told him he had something worth pre-selling
Workedvalidationemail
What they did
Emailed the list about once a week with new findings, and in the background reached out to each subscriber individually to discuss the app idea. Replies to the emails became idea feedback. Weekly contact kept engagement high enough for the later presale.
What happened
Gathered enough feedback to know the idea was worth monetizing
- Stage
- Pre-launch
“You know, every week or so, I would just hit hit up this list with new findings that I had, and in the background, I would reach out to each person individually to talk to them about this idea for this app that I wanted to build.”
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