Journable · B2C · AI calorie counter app
Launch on Product Hunt and treat the first paying users as proof
Front page; a couple hundred installs and 2 subscribers, enough to validate
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What they did
Day-zero distribution was a Product Hunt launch. It was featured on the front page. Two paying subscribers from the launch were taken as proof people would pay, after which they started paid ads.
What happened
A couple hundred installs; 2 converted to subscribers; treated as validation
- Stage
- Launch
- Effort
- One launch
“We got featured on the front page of Product Hunt. It got us a couple hundred installs. Two of those installs converted to subscribers, at which point we knew we had validated the product.”
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