Getting Your First Customers on Hacker Forums

It's cool that people reacted so well to you coming into these forums and promoting your product. A lot of people will go on to Hacker News or into a Facebook group or on Reddit and promote their product, and then just get flamed out of the room because it's like self-promoting yourself. But unlike company support forums, there really isn't much culture. It's just people who go there and they don't hang out there all day, they just go there to solve a specific problem. And so you came in and said, hey, we've got this perfect solution to your problem, try this. So it was very just like casual, you know, comments and not