Allen seeded early Indie Hackers forum with fake accounts
Courtland Allen · Bonus Episode: What Courtland Allen Has Learned Interviewing 155 Startup Founders · Apr 16, 2020 · at 20:44
Courtland Allen describes the growth tactics he used to jump-start activity on the Indie Hackers community forum.
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“Early on there was just like me and like five or six fake versions of me on different accounts just having these fake conversations back and forth, trying to make the forum seem lively, and then I would Email out these fake conversations basically to my mailing list and say, hey, we've got a form now, you know, we're talking about work-life balance, you know, join the conversation, and every now and then somebody would trickle in.”
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