What actually drove my first 20 signups and what wasted my time

Three weeks building Wandoria part time and I tracked every channel carefully.

Wandoria is a company directory where visitors hit a randomize button and land on a random profile. €18/year to list. 150 founding spots, first year free.

What worked:
Reddit - basically everything. One post got 14k views and 340 comments. Did not expect that at all.

Warm DMs from commenters converted at around 20-30%. Felt weird but it worked.

What did not:
Cold Product Hunt outreach - 25 messages, 1 signup. Not worth the time.

LinkedIn with 160 connections - 20 likes, 0 comments. Maybe a channel for later.

One channel outperformed everything else combined. Kept trying to diversify, Reddit kept winning.

130 founding spots left at wandoria(.io)

What drove your first signups?

Author: teemu_dev