First 100 users with 0$: how to do that?

Domenico Gagliardi
4 min readApr 13, 2024

Hello everyone! Those who read my stories may know that I’m a huge fan of organic growth, without spending money on marketing activities, at least for the first couple of months -> validation stage.

We’re here today because we launched our blog on buymicrostartups.com, and someone asked “How can I attract the first users to my product?”.

So here we are.

From validation to distribution

In this chaotic world. more chaotic in the SaaS market, we all must validate our ideas as soon as possible. So I would suggest you read my article on how to validate an idea in a very quick way: https://medium.com/@gagliardidomenico/thats-how-we-got-200-emails-with-no-product-8afb397ca682

Once you’ve validated an idea, and you know there is a problem and a market, you need to attract your first users. I’m not speaking about paying customers, that’s a little bit different here. I’m speaking about users that can benefit from using your product.

In 2024 there is an activity that is more important than others: it is the distribution.

Everyone can build a product today. We’ve democratized everything about product building: there are no-code tools; there are AI tools for every activity like marketing, videos, and images. We are…

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Domenico Gagliardi

SaaS Entrepreneur | Business Analyst | 6x Micro Exit | Building Products for fun: https://iworkedon.com/@dg