Show HN: Firstusers.io – Find out how companies got their first users

I love it, especially how you summarized the key points in one or two sentences instead of going into lengthy stories.<p>It seems the key strategies can be listed as follows:<p>1. Great video which demonstrates a good knowledge of the community (Dropbox)<p>2. Viral (aka sharing) features built in (Instagram)<p>3. Leveraging existing userbase (Instagram, Product Hunt)<p>4. Exclusivity (aka invite only) (Spotify, Facebook, Quora)<p>5. Reaching out to competitor&#x27;s users and doing a better job than the competitor (AirBNB)<p>6. Getting the tougher side of the marketplace on board first (Tinder)<p>7. Offering rewards for signing up etc. (Paypal, Yelp)<p>8. Starting with a premium service first to deliver best user experience, leading to word of mouth (Uber)<p>9. Contests (Youtube)<p>10. Influencer outreach (Etsy)<p>11. Seeding site with good content (Quora)<p>Do continue with this site. I find it to be a very valuable resource.

I wish it was more detailed than a few sentences for a company. If keeping it short is going to be your thing, at least link out to references that are more in depth, such as previous interviews, etc.

Hi, I built this site to show how companies (mostly in tech) got their first users &#x2F; how they got viral. Hopefully, people will get some new inspirations on how to get new users based on what have been done in the past :).

All the examples are from network-effected services.

Some great content on the site but the layout is buggy on crappy old Android phones with small screens.