Ask HN: What’s your most successful marketing strategy thus far?

13 points·freeelncer··2 comments

I am running a productized service making ~$10k in MRR called Manypixels (https://www.manypixels.co) -- We have only been live for a few weeks and so far it has been content for us.

1. Facebook - I joined all niche Facebook groups about SaaS and startups (example: Paris Startups). I posted the following: "Would you guys find this useful? Yes? No? Why Not?", asked for feedback and that generated a lot of discussion.

2. Reddit - I posted a few learnings about how I launched this side project in 5 hours and got the few subscribers. r/entrepreneur is huge but competitive, r/startups is also huge but less competitive.

3. Other platforms: IH, Hacker News, Dribbble

Also works: Direct sales (mostly via Dribbble). When I will launch our v2 I am planning to add referrals (for our existing clients) & affiliate sales.

When we grow really big I will probably try Facebook Ads, or Youtube ads or Reddit ads but even though I am not so sure as I want to stay relatively small and high quality!

That is a really cool project. I have a question which might be off topic but here goes. In a startup like yours how do you price? Do you price for the average case and leave it at that? Also do you start with a good margin of safety and are somewhat flexible with the pricing as you are a new startup? Kind Regards.

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