[nicooo]

I’ve had success twice using targeted social media outreach — specifically by joining relevant subreddit discussions and commenting on YouTube videos where my target audience was already active.

Instead of simply promoting your service right away (it often feels spammy), I recommend genuinely engaging in conversations until the right opportunity comes up.

I ended up turning that process into its own product: https://sparkflow.ai/

[arewethereyeta]

This seems like that sort of marketing where the OP creates a question for himself to answer from another account.

[grepfru_it]

Sigh. This is yCombinator’s startup school or whatever it’s called where they teach you to launch a product and solicit engagement and feedback. This template is boilerplate for the last 3 or 4 I’ve seen. Then it gets posted to hacker news to solicit feedback from “real users”. Without fail the creators happen to haha stumble in and happily take your feedback. Absolutely nothing changes and you will return to the same product page as an old bookmark 2 years from now and realize nothing on the page has changed.

Instead, notice when this happens and then take away your own experience and use it to build your own product. Good luck!

[nicooo]

I was not involved in the original comment. But maybe I should expand my product to build this ;)

[pbronez]

Heh how meta.

Makes sense though. I’ve been thinking of creating a very similar tool; delighted that it might already exist!

[_QrE]

> I ended up turning that process into its own product: https://sparkflow.ai/

That implies that the product is ready, which it does not seem to be? The product does seem interesting, what do you do to differentiate yourself from different offerings that do basically the same? E.g. you mention Discord on the website - are you finding all the relevant discord channels for me, or do I have to join them myself, and you just monitor my account?

[nicooo]

Hi. I should have phrased it differently as I'm not totally ready yet (as you rightly pointed out).

Yes, I find the discussions, let you engage with them trough the app, and monitor replies.

Do you mind sharing the competition you're referring to? I've not found any similar solution so far. Thanks

[conductr]

This is inception level promotion, I’m not even mad at ya lol

[gardnr]

Is this comment part of the grift?

[0xsnowcrash]

Do you have numbers?

i.e. what the "success" was like in each of the outreaches?

[nicooo]

I never pulled numbers but since I got most of my first 100 users through this without paying any money, the ROI is positive :) Time was an investment though, and that's why I hope my service will help here.

[pj_mukh]

Interesting product! One problem: I want to get a handle on the quality of online conversations you flag. Do you know that on the free tier, the top 5 you flag are the best of your filter?

[nicooo]

Yes, I will do an initial search for 1000s of conversations and give you the top 5. Each day I repeat the process.

[johncole]

I went to sign up and got sent to a typeform telling me thanks for my email address. Did I fall for the hustle?

[nicooo]

Thank you for the trust. I am finalizing the last features before opening to first users. I will reach out to you soon!

[econ]

Now we need a corporate chat bot that talks about pain points on social media.

[joeguilmette]

I signed up for the waitlist, please approve me

[nicooo]

Thank you for your trust. I want to finalize a few more things before roll it out to first users. I will get back to you!