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Personal blog · zerotousers.substack.comstartupsbusiness

ZeroToUsers is a personal blog at zerotousers.substack.com about startups and business. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “15 Acquisition Channels I Discovered from Reading 479 Founder Interviews”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2020

Each week, I talk about acquisition channels that work & are likely to work in the future.

Most-linked posts?

  1. 15 Acquisition Channels I Discovered from Reading 479 Founder Interviews
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-09
  2. Surprising User Acquisition Strategy: A domain name
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. > We opened the floodgates. We shared the project on Twitter and Instagram, posted to HN and wrote a medium post. But, try as we might, no one was signing up. Later in the post: > Had we had more funding, we would have taken the time to rewrite our app in $ELITELANG instead. Our startup could have been a unicorn. Although this is satire, it's something a lot of funded startups do. They think they've solved user acqu…

    Comment linking /p/15-acquisition-channels-i-discovered

    on “We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed”
  2. Submitted “Powered by” buttons for customer acquisition as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted 15 Acquisition Channels I Discovered from Reading 479 Founder Interviews as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Software=Magic for Most People, and We Often Forget That as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted 15 Acquisition Channels I Discovered from Reading 479 Founder Interviews as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Surprising User Acquisition Strategy: A domain name as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Getting Paying Users via the Shopify App Store as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Surprising User Acquisition Strategy: A domain name as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Remember: Software=Magic for Most People as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Acquisition Channel Opportunities #001 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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