Favorite growth hack?

@5harath Does it work better with a personal or a business account?

@youreka that's quite interesting I never thought it would work on reddit. What sort of subreddits do you go on to search for people to DM?

@rucha_joshi8 subreddits that pertain to our space or pages dedicated to our competitors. So privacy, own your data, protonmail, tutonota, p2p, etc...

@youreka late to this discussion, but can you share how DM'ing people directly on reddit went? any tips, best practices? I am about to start on this and would love to know what to avoid and what to say to drive signups!

@hassanshaikh it actually was very successful for us, we try to narrow it down to subreddits that were pertinent to our product, so we didn’t reach out to people outside of our target audience and we tried to keep it grounded, avoiding the sell pitches that may resemble a bot posting type thing and then simply having a conversation around pain point or issues these reditors may have expressed on the sub, and talking about out solution. The majority of people received it well, a few called it creepy and spammy but that i guess that was to be expected. Overall it was definitely a win for us. @pierre_kraus (Telios team member) drove a couple hundred people to our platform which for us this early one is huge.

@maxwellcdavis Like Nike says, "If you want to create a revolution..." Everything is going to will be all right; "Just Do It".

@maxwellcdavis @s_nakamoto That's fair. I think the building part is implied (or should have been). But I agree it's easy to get sidetracked and be hyper focused on growth and not enough on building the product. Maybe the real question, how do you best determine market fit?

@mikecardona_ I guess instead of the word hack I should have said strategies. We've tried to DM and it works well, some misses where people don't like it but for the most part, it works well.

@antonovna Do you mean straight DMs or mass audience communication?

@ira_gi What do you mean by replenishment of the client base?

@s_nakamoto ahaha That's funny. Growth Strategies for your startup?

@berthakgokong interesting. Thanks for sharing.. Just posted in an AMA on IndieHackers about using social listening tools.