1000+ signups on 10th day of Launch. AMA

Nope. When we talk with a user, we communicate what we provide. Here 'Talk' can be defined as chatting with use, commenting on their post / requirement or anything else.

We haven't started sending bulk cold emails or DMs yet. We are still trying different messages to see which top 3 messages can work best for us.

1. No ads. No cold emails. We did reach out to users on LI, Reddit and some on Twitter. LI and Reddit worked well for us. But users shared with their friends and groups (may be). May be lucky. But we got more signups.
2. LI - comments, connect request and post of very few groups worked for us.
   Reddit - comments and post
   Twitter - Twitter list and very few Replies

Shadowing is the practice of following and observing someone closely to learn on-the-job tasks, routines, responsibilities, and practices.

For now, we are applying shadowing concept to hiring phase. Eventually, we will apply it to onboarding and many other phases in employee-company journey.

This might help you to understand more about Shadowing: https://shadowing.ai/what_is_shadowing

I had more companies in the waiting list than applicants. :) :) :)
I had more customer interviews for companies and they all opt-in.
Companies : 50+
Applicants: 20+

Good questions again:

1. We tried many channels. These 3 worked out. I knew intuitively that LI and Reddit will work. We wanted to try Twitter because I built few bots in past to find who posts about hiring on Twitter and there were many at that time, but now very few.
   Thought process: was to check the output. You gotta check whether you get page views or signups using any channel. If I don't get response in 2 days, I don't focus on that channel. In the first few days or weeks or months, I only want to focus on the channels where I will get the traffic from. For other channels, I will hire someone later to figure out why and how.
2. Right message = clear message using <20 simple words. We found our right message after customer interviews processes. We tried many combinations and found which is easy for customers to understand. The way you can verify is to tell your users and see if they signup right away or within a day. I talked with customers for ~3 months before I finalized the flow and design.
3. Examples: 1. Ask different questions / discuss same message using different words - to different customers groups. 2. I paid $5 to job seekers in 7 different countries - to take part in customer interviews and to find their core problems in finding a job using LI, Indeed or any other job websites in their respective countries (I found these 7 candidates through LI ;);) ) . 3. I sent an email to the founders in NY a day after they raised ~$15M in series A - about the mistakes they might make after raising series A. They loved it and they gave me 2 hours to take part in customer interview. 4. I did many things like this to find the early customers before and after customer interviews. I'd advise to think about your customers and then find the ways you can reach out to them even before you start working on product and even after you start working on the product. Just differently, but it always helps.
4. My actual target for 1st month was 100k :). I only got 1% of it. There was no logic for 100k goal . I just wanted to push myself in the first month - to figure out other ways to reach that goal, not only marketing or reaching out, but what viral feature I can built to get 100k signups a day. I did this one of my previous startup of Facebook apps. I will know soon about the users I can get in 2nd month or 3rd month. I set target for myself to get 1M users by June, 2022 - for this I am working on few features and reaching out to the users at the same time. I talk with 10 random users every week. - why did they signup? what are their expectations?
5. I'd talk with my users more If I'd do something differently. Some of the things I am learning from our new users are the almost similar to what users said in customer interviews. I am realizing this now. Sometimes you have to read and listen between the lines. We are working on those requirements now. We could have solve those problems in our 1st release. The learning here is: Talk more with your users and customers, however busy you are. Spend more time with them and they will tell you what to work on and how to reach to them.

Hope this helps.
Happy Holidays!!