Reuben Platon

The other day I came across an interesting dilemma: You "need" social proof to get users, and you need users to have social proof. So I asked myself: how do you get social proof with no users WITHOUT being slimy, shady, and misleading (i.e.: being blatantly obvious that the social proof is fake)? In my research, I came across a 2-year-old thread (https://www.indiehackers.com/for...) and those two websites with fake testimonials came up: https://chatthingy.com/ and mathpix.com (they do have real reviews at the bottom though) I did my own version at https://koupi.io So my questions to you is: yay? nay? would you do it? Do you have other original marketing tricks like that?

Hi Makers! This thread is dedicated to you if you are: (1) launching soon or recently launched (2) looking for beta users (3) asking for feedback on a landing page First, start by helping out another maker. You can check out their launch, give their product a review or share a comment on their launch post. Once you've helped someone else out, share your product link here and BE SPECIFIC about who your target audience is and how we can help.