100 paying users in 100 days
100in100.co
100in100.co
Is that the only thing anyone makes any more? Surely there have to be some actual products in the world to be marketed?
You can click the tags to toggle them and choose what you want to see.
It seems a bit odd to offer per-category leaderboards only, especially on the front page, especially if it's going to randomise which one to show with only minimal feedback that it's doing that.
The first startup I ever worked for made IT integrate about a dozen different marketing SaaS because each one was able to convince the department that it would enable them to become the next generation of rockstar sales people.
The challenge is simple, get 100 new paying customers in 100 days.
If you sign up, your project will be added to the leaderboard on the homepage (now filterable by category!).
Starting on Monday we'll be collecting weekly updates, verified by screenshots, to confirm how many new users you've added.
If you take the challenge and succeed you'll have passed the proof-of-concept faze and graduated to the I'm-building-a-business faze of your startup journey. Good luck!
Side note: I'm not sure why, but a font like this makes me trust a site less, even though I know it's just a line of CSS. Can someone explain why?
re trust-worthiness in design. Design is always communicating something. Sometimes it's "I'm a bank you should give me your money" and other times it's "This person/company isn't very good at building website".
re trusting me in particular. I've been running the community behind this challenge, Indie Worldwide, for a couple years now and haven't f'd up too bad yet.
From my own experience to launch my https://hanami.run email forwarding SaaS app, a weekly sync with my friends are my life hack to bring the idea to life, it forces to work, celebrate small changes/win with friend. Thing like I managed to got 100 visitors to landing page last week are now so awesome to tell my friends and keep me motivated.
Building on the dark in the past make me think I'm a falure and just jump ship to other brighter idea.
In any case, I think the copy on the website is much clearer (“100 paying users in 100 days”). I initially interpreted the title to mean startups are paying “users” to beta-test/astroturf services.