a single source, nothing corroborates it
Bank goodwill for years before the front page pays
The founders who broke out through a community hit were not lucky strangers: they had spent years being useful in the place before they had anything to launch. Treat the eventual front page as the payout on that account rather than a stroke of luck. Nobody opens the account on launch day.
The method
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Treat a front-page hit on a community site as the payoff of long-running goodwill, not luck: the founders who broke out that way had put in years of being useful before they had anything to launch.
What it returned
Several Micro-SaaS businesses were started by reaching the top of Hacker News or Reddit
Sources
- Chapter 5: Getting Your First Customers - Tyler TringasTyler Tringas · tylertringas.com · Aggregator sites and blogs · 2017-01-19
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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