Ok guys, help a dev out. I'm an awful marketer — hopefully I'll get some real help on this soon, but in the meantime, what are the highest leverage suggestions you have to catch the Discord wave tha...
I see you want to make money with this but also that it's 10% unstable and far from feature complete.
Market yourself as the concierge service for this open source tool. Seek partners for its promotion, offering free hosting and concierge service for a year. After all you want beta testers and probably need some bigger communities to actually use the product to round all the edges to get it to a place where people would pay for it.
Promise priority for their problems, free migration to a self-hosted relay whenever they want out (no vendor lock-in), free setup, configuration and premium support.
You seek partners, not clients at this stage.
Market yourself as the concierge service for this open source tool. Seek partners for its promotion, offering free hosting and concierge service for a year. After all you want beta testers and probably need some bigger communities to actually use the product to round all the edges to get it to a place where people would pay for it.
Promise priority for their problems, free migration to a self-hosted relay whenever they want out (no vendor lock-in), free setup, configuration and premium support.
You seek partners, not clients at this stage.
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