Aragon got early signups via a viral incentive tweet
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Wesley Tian, founder of Aragon.ai, explains how he bootstrapped early site traffic and waitlist users from scratch on Twitter.
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“I tweeted basically just like, hey, you know, building in public, check this out. I took some screenshots of my website. You know, if you, like, or, you know, retweet, or engage with this tweet, then, you know, I'll give you, like, 50 free credits, right? And it's only available for the first 50 people. So it was just like a, like some tactic like that, just like, trying to like create some sort of, some sense of urgency and rewarding people for sharing, you know, my tweet. And I think that tweet got around like 50 to a hundred likes. Maybe like tens of thousands of impressions. And so yeah, that's how we got our early users. Like it was like a few hundred people like came to our site and wait listed.”
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