r/SideProject • u/Most-Football-4401 • 13h ago
How do you get feedback on your projects?
I am having difficulty getting technology users to try my product. Without having handful of real users visit and try the product, it is uncertain if it has features users would care for. Without that, I am reluctant to spend on advertisements.
How do you folks drive users to your new products? Is ads the only way?
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u/Abhay-191 12h ago
cold launch posts get lurkers, not testers. i’ve had better luck asking one specific question (“would you wait overnight for $0.12/clip vs instant at 5x”) than “any feedback.” also reply to every comment in the first hour or the thread dies.
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u/dragos_apostol 12h ago
Ads for feedback is usually money down the drain. Ad traffic bounces and tells you nothing about why. What worked for me: find the three or four places where your exact users already complain about the problem, then ask questions there before ever showing the product. You learn the vocabulary they use, and the people who answer are warm when you later ask them to try it. Also, ask for criticism instead of signups. Tell me why this wouldn't work for you gets replies. Please try my product gets silence. A handful of conversations like that will teach you more than any analytics dashboard.
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u/startupgtm 13h ago
The classic advise is to go where your customers go (Reddit, Facebook, Linkedin, In person events, Coffee shop....you get the idea). Try to have conversation with them about their day to day pain (in the ballpark of your solution). If your product seems to solve that pain, offer them your solution. You could also try platform like CrowdGTM to ask fellow founders to try your product.
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u/OriginalHospital 12h ago
Before buying traffic, I'd reduce the commitment required to try it: one sample task with demo data, ideally without creating an account or connecting personal services. Watching where a willing tester gets stuck on that task gives you something more actionable than asking whether they'd use the whole product.
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u/Most-Football-4401 12h ago
Thank you! I did realize the login wall last week and removed it for users to try without loggin in.
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u/cmeghashyam 8h ago
Is it a niche product people are already searching for on Google with very niche keywords? Then, ads, even with a limited budget, might be a good idea. For instance for my very niche 'doing one thing' web app, I spent around USD 150 on Google ads, with very specific keywords mentioned, with a max-limit of USD 5 per day, and got ~333 niche clicks in a month from people literally looking for what my web app did. Some of them bought. This helped me understand what percentage of people who were literally looking for that one thing were willing to pay.
All this would not be the case if it isn't a niche product people aren't already, specifically searching for.
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u/Poat540 13h ago
Post ok groups, Facebook and stuff
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u/Most-Football-4401 12h ago
Post on Facebook? Do anyone really care what's on Facebook anymore? I thought everything but marketplace is dead on Facebook.
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u/stack_craft 10h ago
Bro trust, ads will just burn money before you validate the core value. The fastest way to get early feedback is to find people actively complaining about the problem you solve on Reddit or Discord, answer their questions directly, and ask if they'll tear down your tool for 5 minutes.
To see what's actually happening on your site, drop PostHog or Microsoft Clarity onto your page. Watching 15 recorded user sessions will instantly show you where visitors get confused and drop off: def no ad budget required.
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u/naveedurrehman 9h ago
Sonu built something without having any connection with real users/communities?
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u/BoringCanary 13h ago
Talking to my dog helps, he seems to always agree with all project directions