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It all starts with solving a problem that people face. People will pay if you can save their time or save their money. People will pay more if you save time and money at the same time. So solve a problem that lot of people face. Forget about making money on day 0. But once you solve the problem for decent number of people then you can easily monetise from those people.

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That's all good, but even if I create something that solves a problem and publish the site - nobody knows about it. I get 10 visitors per day.

From SEO perspective, there is very little chance to rank high as a new site for quite some time (unless there is something I don't know, and you could share).

So I guess the question is not how to get the first 1$, but how to get first 1000 of (even free) users

That's correct, you need to figure out where your target users hangout usually like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc and engage with them there. Find their problems and if they are facing the ones that you are solving, tell them about your solution.

How do you handle "no advertising" policy that's active in most communities when you are telling to potential users about your solution? (I'm having issues with that policy) Do you have any examples of your approach?

Publicly answering people's questions and DMing them pitching your solution can help if you do it tastefully many places don't mind you saying I am working on this here's my solution

Aha, got it. Thank you!

Also eager to learn more about other tricks if exists.

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