Startup Launch
6 min readFrom Zero Users to Your First 25 Signups
A realistic four-week plan for getting your first real accounts.
Twenty five real signups is enough to see patterns. Here is a plan that gets there.
## Week 1 — prepare
Fix onboarding, write a five step signup checklist, publish your project.
## Week 2 — trade
Start reciprocal exchanges with founders in adjacent categories.
## Week 3 — talk
Message every new user with one question about their first minute in the product.
## Week 4 — iterate
Fix the two things everyone mentioned, then run another round of exchanges.