Jungle · B2C · AI study app
DM everyone who liked or replied to the tweet and ask them to try it
First 100 users and lots of feedback; Twitter account got banned
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What they did
DMed everyone who engaged with the viral flashcards tweet, hundreds of people, inviting them to try the product. The one-on-one channel made it easy for users to send feedback.
What happened
Brought the first 100 users and a lot of early feedback, but it was not an effective way to grow and got the founder's Twitter account banned.
- Stage
- Launch (first users)
- Effort
- Hundreds of DMs until the account was banned
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Julian Alvarez - This ai study app makes $100k/mo. here's how (no-code)“we basically got our first 100 users by DMing everyone that engaged with that tweet, so much to the point that my Twitter account got banned, which was really sad.”
“The DMing hundreds of people to try the product, that was not the most effective way to grow, but it was a really effective way to get feedback because you're already opening a one-on-one like channel of communication”
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