Indie Hackers

#018 – Finding Your First Paying Customers with Wade Foster of Zapier

Jun 14, 2017

51:35

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Episode guests

Wade Foster

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Engagement Drives User Acquisition

00:41

Show Early, Improve Often

00:30

Engage Your Audience for Amplified Reach

00:32

Zapbook - What Was Your Job in the Early Days?

01:51

Introduction

4min

How Did You Know That Non-Engineers Wanted to Build a Google Contacts Integration?

2min

How Do You Come Up With SaaS Apps?

2min

Zapier - How Did You Meet Your Co-Founders?

2min

How Did You Manage Your Work-Life Balance?

2min

Zapbook - What Was Your Job in the Early Days?

2min

Getting Your First Customers on Hacker Forums

3min

Is There a Mistake That You're Making?

2min

Is Your Product Ready Yet?

3min

10.

How Did You Get Your First Beta Users?

2min

11.

Work-Life Balance After Y Combinator

4min

12.

Zapier - You're a Remote Company?

2min

13.

Are You a Profitable Company That Has Raised Money?

2min

14.

Are Your Investors Pressured to Drive Your Company Out of Profitability?

2min

15.

The Seed Round of Growth for Zapier

2min

16.

How Do You Promote Zapier With New Partners?

2min

17.

Was There Any One Marketing Channel That Worked Better Than the Rest?

2min

18.

Zapier Integrations - What's Your Email Strategy?

2min

19.

How Did You Set Up Your Blog?

3min

20.

How Do You Promote Your Content on Your Blog?

2min

21.

Zapier or Workflow Automation?

3min

22.

Zapier

2min

How did a company that nobody'd ever heard of find hundreds of beta users, and even convince them to pay for access? Wade Foster tells the story behind user acquisition at Zapier.

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