[ElijahLynn]

As a first time founder, I'm making my first product right now, and this video was perfect timing!

I like the advice that the first three customers almost always come from personal network, and then 4-10 will come from warm network, and through techniques that don't scale.

It was kind of spot on, as I do have my first pledged customer after showing them the proof of concept demo. They keep asking when it's going to be ready.

And my second target was the person who runs the co-working space I used to be at. Which are lining up with the claim that the first three will be in my personal network!

Also, TIL about Startup School, and there's a whole bunch of videos to absorb and I subscribed to their YouTube channel!

[raphinou]

Good timing for me too. I'm currently looking for a first customer with whom I'd possibly shape the product a bit. The development phase was fun, now comes the hard part. Additionally I'm working on a security related product (digital artifact authenticity validation) and I feel like security is a hard sell especially in my network as they don't seem to correspond to the product's target (or I'm a poor promoter of the solution....). .

[Synthetic7346]

It's not you, security is indeed a hard sell (coming from the other side, as security engineer trying to push for adoption of solutions). There's some products like Wiz that you don't really need to push hard for, but everything else seems like a struggle

[raphinou]

Damn! Would you have the opportunity to share experiences? My emails is in my profile, it would be great to hear from you. (It is an open source project, which makes it even harder to sell probably, so every hint might help!)