I launched my product a little while back. Did the Product Hunt thing, posted in every relevant community I could find. Got some nice words, decent traffic, a handful of signups.
But still zero paid users.
I don't want the standard advice. I've heard it all.
What I want to know is what actually worked for you. The weird stuff. The thing you'd never put in a LinkedIn post. Did you DM 200 strangers? Give away free access and then upsell? Did someone just randomly tweet about you and that was it?
I'm genuinely in the trenches right now. Tell me what your first breakthrough looked like.