We are making AI read-it-later app that summarizes videos and articles and saves time.
We have already 203 people in waitlist. Our goal is to have 1000 people until the end of this year.
But how to achieve it in 1,5 months? Please give your advices how to grow people in waitlist, any life hacks, tips. I’ll appreciate any of these.
If you want to see closely our app, here is our landing page: gosamurai.ai
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The world needs many things. Yet another AI summarize app is not one of them. If you want to have 1000 people in your waiting list, your product should have some unique selling point. Right now, it’s just one of many and it’s as interesting as watching paint dry.
Good point. But I made this thread not to sell our product or smth like that.
What thing in particular concerns you? That it is summarization? Or that it is read-later app?
Have you used such an app?
Could you mention 1 or 2 particularly great read-it-later apps that provide concise, structured summaries that wouldn’t be just material descriptions or wasting a lot of insights.
And also the one that would work with any type of content: YouTube, articles, TED.
Would be glad to check them out.
Where did you get the 203? Do more of that.
Try running a productivity challenge through your waitlist. Go to communities and invite people to the challenge and waitlist.
Here’s a list: https://thehiveindex.com/topics/productivity/
We used primarily Reddit platform. Thank you very much, definitely will use this list!
Awesome!
Yeah that strategy is how I launched https://www.marketingforfounders.com/ out of beta last Monday. It helped us get 25 users since then and over 100 newsletter subscribers.
It’s a lot of work and completely unscalable long term but a good way to get things kickstarted.
We need something like this for B2C SaaS as well…
Yeah B2C is a tough game. My goal is to get more experts on staff in different niches as we grow. B2C SaaS and eCommerce are likely next steps for us.
which communities did you use for the list?
can you share some posts on it?
So far we have only written on Reddit, for example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gtd/comments/174pf4f/advice\_for\_an\_aipowered\_readlater\_app\_in\_the/
We also launched the listing process on sites like these:
https://www.toolify.ai/tool/samurai
We consistently receive traffic from reddit and listings every day.thanks, do you have a list of those listing pages? do you pay for the listing?
Follow Vlad, the founder, in twitter https://twitter.com/AmbitiousVlad, he will share it soon. Listings now we use for free, but later we will use paid
Here are some experiments you can run (assuming you know your target audience)
- Cold emails
Getting customers from cold emails
- Linkedin DMs
LinkedIn DMs : Killer Strategy
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Regularly posting on niche communities ( niche facebook groups etc. )
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Build some light weight free tools & launch on platforms like product hunt
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Personal brand building (Twitter, Linkedin etc)
Do you think LinkedIn is suitable for b2c and an application like ours? And what exactly should we do there then?
Thank you very much
By making a product that isn’t a borefest?
There are a thousand of these “summarise” apps.
I agree that attracting people in a highly competitive market is significantly more challenging.
However, as it often happens, the details are crucial. The specific summarization, the particular flow, and the precise way the service is positioned are what make the difference.
Moreover, there are various platforms like Pocket and Instapaper with tens of millions of users that have become outdated and fail to offer the necessary features for content consumption in 2023.