How do I get users for my email productivity tool?

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by hendersonsam456 • 4 years ago

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I made a gmail plug-in that reads the email that’s open and uses GPT3 to suggest a reply.

It helps me respond to recruiters.

But other people would probably find it useful.

Any advice how I can find my first users?

kobiguru• 4 years ago

Try launching on Hackernews, product hunt, indie Hacker, email some creator (with large following to try it out), try doing it in AppSumo, Upload a video of it on youtube.

These are just top of my head. I am sure there would be many

warrenm• 4 years ago

Maybe try adding a link to it here

Or a "Show HN:" post

purpletoad2• 4 years ago

Here's my product - https://contextpal.com/. This went live two days ago.

Jugurtha• 4 years ago

This may not answer your question on how to find users for your tool, but may be a suggestion to change "target audience" of your "productivity tool" from email recipients who get these sporadically to email senders whose job it is to send them (i.e: productivity tool for someone whose job it is to do a task and who want to do their job better and who could spend money on your tool as and write it down as tooling cost as opposed to individuals rarely receiving emails who'll see it as a nice to have and pay for it from their own pocket: how valuable is it, really).

There's an asymmetry here: do people receive more emails from recruiters than do recruiters receive from candidates?

I suppose you could change your product to serve recruiters and solve the problems they have. Maybe your product will help them so much that people will not feel a need to create a tool to deal with emails from recruiters, thereby eliminating that problem as a bonus.

purpletoad2• 4 years ago

Hey hendersonsam456@, I stumbled upon your thread. I have a product in the same category. It'll be nice to get your thoughts - Here's the landing page contextpal.com. Let me know if you are interested to work together.

How do I get users for my email productivity tool?

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