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by danieka 2604 days ago
Do you have anyone in your network that can test out your MVP, and actually use it in their company? What I found in the beginning, if the MVP you released is kind of crappy, which it should be, is that it's difficult to get people to make the time investment needed to test it out and give valuable feedback. When it's someone you already know they are more likely to actually commit the time.

Also, at this stage I don't think you should measure success by how many users you get but rather by how happy your users are. I think zapperdapper is spot on with saying you need to find one customer who loves your product. Once you have that customer try using her to find out how to reach similar customers. Which online communities do they belong to? Where do they get their industry news? Can she recommend your SaaS to other potential customers? Can you maybe attend industry events? What sales language does she respond to? In her own words how does she describe her problem and your solution?

Also, if you post a link here, maybe HN can help out?

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I don't know anyone in my network who could test it out, hell at this point I'm willing to pay someone just to earnestly test it out and provide feedback that I'm so hungry for.

I'm definitely looking into industry events/trade shows, I don't have the resources for a booth, but I can probably walk around with a tablet demoing my product to prospects. I'm also part of an industrial online community, but I can't just spam my app there, as it's invite-only and I don't want to get banned.

My link is https://rebrand.ly/dr6a8h.

Sorry for the shortened URL, I'm trying my best for my site not to be indexed by Google in case prospects search for my site.

My humble opinion here:

1- the "cut out the insurance middleman" is just huge and don't tell me what your site is about

2- "EZ dental membership software for managing your new/existing in-house dental plan" - Got a bit confused as to what EZ dental is, as I thought this should be actually OK Dental. Also still don't know what is it that you are selling

3- "Sign Up for free" - for what? what is it that you are selling? who are you?

4- Now I see the screenshots with the stats and below it some useful information and understand more what you are offering.

I suggest you hire a professional designer to re-design your landing page as it is so confusing, size of fonts is just too big in places, I had to spend way too much time to even understand the niche you are targeting.

If you are targeting dentists, then go where they are online/offline. I would find a forum/webpage where there are a lot of dentists and buy an ad there. Alternatively just visit them and see if they are interested.