Ask HN: How did you get your first five customers?

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Curious as to how other startups got there first five customers (or first few)? Were they all people in your existing network? Did you cold email / cold call? Did you advertise? What were your most successful techniques?

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Personal network, PH, HN. No paid acquisition. Built relationships while testing concept with a landing page first, so I had beta customers lined up at launch.

It's important to try to convert leads on your website early on since you don't have a ton of traffic.

The first customers are always the hardest. Good luck!

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