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Would you pay to immediately acquire the first 100 users for your side project/app/website? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by someonestoic@alien.top to c/sideproject@indiehackers.space

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I mean real users who also give feedback. So that you know how to pivot or whether or not to go ahead with the project.

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[–] JouniFlemming@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

The pitch sounds like those scammy websites who sell you 1 million website visitors for $10.

When you build a product, you need to think about how you are going to give value to its users. When you do that, you will get users.

[–] anonperson2021@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I'd be very suspicious. Like some companies pay people to drop likes, comments, reviews and backlinks using spreadsheets full of fake accounts. They run this kinda scam in the name of "digital marketing".

If there were a way to see that's not the deal here, then yes.

[–] EchoesOfCode@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

If I was 100% sure the users would really be interested in the product and would be my target, yes I would.

But I won't be 100% sure and that would probably looks too scammy, so no.

[–] tweera_app@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yes

[–] juggerjaxen@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

only if one could connect me to people that would actually care and not some far east workers or bots generating traffic

[–] iqrgwebs@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think "real users" can be paid for, can they? I'd rather just keep improving my site/product until people want to use it without being paid.