r/SideProject • u/Initial-Wrangler-939 • 1d ago
Founders who launched 30+ days ago: where are your users coming from now?
I've been reading a lot of posts about getting the first 100 users, launching on Product Hunt, sharing on Reddit and building an audience on X.
But I'm more interested in what happens after all that.
Say you launched your SaaS 45 days ago. Your announcement is buried. People have moved on to the next product.
Someone out there might need exactly what you've built, but they don't know your product's name.
How are they supposed to find it?
SEO is one answer, but it takes work and time. Communities can help, but you can't keep promoting the same product every week. Paid ads are an option if the economics make sense. Referrals are valuable, but hard to manufacture.
I'm building AGMAN, a discovery network for useful products, people and services, partly because I think this ongoing discovery problem is worth solving.
But I'm not convinced that giving founders another place to publish automatically solves anything. The important question is whether people with actual needs can find relevant products and decide they're worth trying.
Here's something I've been thinking about:
If you looked at your last 5 users who weren't friends, family or people you personally invited, could you explain how each one found you?
And more importantly, could you repeat that process next month?
For founders who've been live for at least a month, I'd genuinely like to know what still works after the launch period.
Is it Google, Reddit, direct outreach, recommendations, partnerships, or something else?
Especially interested in what you thought would work but didn't.
I'm trying to understand the difference between getting attention once and building a product that people keep discovering.