Andrew GazdeckiSerial Entrepreneur Driving Startup Acquisitions

How this founder got his first customers leading him to profitability

23 Jan 2025

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This is a YouTube video titled "How this founder got his first customers leading him to profitability" containing an interview or discussion where a founder explains how they acquired their initial customers through viral videos on Twitter and a product launch, including unexpected virality in China. The content is from January 2025 and focuses on early customer acquisition strategies.

Tell me about how did you get your first customers? Initially, I started posting because like, initially, obviously I didn't even believe because it was my first product. I didn't believe that someone would pay for it. And I started posting videos made by Copycopter on Twitter. And then for some reason it went viral in China, which was super weird because the whole app wasn't even in China. But then people from China started signing up. So I think somewhere around that time I decided to actually, my friend convinced me to launch the product on product launch, which I did, and then people immediately started paying for it. So I think the China Virality plus product hunt, someone from these two groups was my first customer. Yeah, that's awesome. I like how you used copycopter to find the first customers.