Ali AbouelAtta

First 1000 — Case studies on how companies got their first 1000 customers

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📈 How do top startups find their early customers?
Find out on First 1000. We share a case study every week about how companies like Zapier, Doordash and Tinder got their very first customers.

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Ali AbouelAtta
Hello Product Hunt 👋, So excited to be releasing first 1000 today. First 1000 at its core is a weekly newsletter about how companies got their first 1000 customers. How did companies get from 0->0.25. Each week we cover a new company, and try to uncover a new strategy/hustle/hack that those founders have leveraged to get the wheels going. To give you a little taste, here are some of the stories we covered Slice -> and how its founder turned his company into a fax-orders generation machine to sign his first pizzerias Spotify->and how they managed to create the “illusion” of a better product to win early customers. Bloomberg->and how he made morning coffee runs to land his first enterprise client. Zumper ->and how they developed a tool to generate leads from their competitors. Stitch Fix -> and how they launched their company without a landing page we even a teardown on Product Hunt 😉. I have some FANTASTIC INTERVIEWS lined up for the month of April and can't wait to have you all onboard. Hit me up with any questions
Csaba Kissi
@ali_abou_el_atta Checked few articles and they're well written, Subscribed. Thanks!
Andrey S
@ali_abou_el_atta Such a great idea and an absolutely favourite weekly read! Thanks for all the work and the insightful stories! Keep it up!
Varun Guru
@ali_abou_el_atta Congrats on your PH launch Ali🥳 I have been a fan of First 1000 for a while now and it is by far one of the best newsletters that I look forward to every week. A perfect combination of valuable growth insights in the least amount of time. Keep them coming🙂
Nikhil Agrawal
@ali_abou_el_atta Checking this late...but really interesting. Where can I read previous newsletter?
Slava Bobrov
Hey, this is actually a great idea, congrats on the launch!
Ali AbouelAtta
@slava_bobrov Thanks so much Slava!
Brian Shin
Congratulations for your PH launch 🎉 I’ve been a super fan of your newsletter @ali_abou_el_atta! Looking forward to your future posts 😊
Ali AbouelAtta
@bri_shin Thank you so much Brian....maybe one day we can do an issue on Typed??
Justin Chitla
This is so awesome! Especially since I am going through these struggles now. Feel free to reach out for feedback in a couple weeks after I’ve gotten some emails.
Ali AbouelAtta
@justinchitla Will hold you to that then 🤓, Always love hearing feedback
Ivanna Wendel
Very useful and informative for founders! Great job @ali_abou_el_atta !
Ali AbouelAtta
@ivanna_wendel THANK YOU IVANNA
William Mitchell
Finding the first 1000 customers is an important, under-reported part of the startup journey to which Ali has devoted considerable thought. The result is this tactical, easy-to-read knowledge base. Bravo Ali!
Ali AbouelAtta
@willy_mitch Thank you Will <3
Vas
Great idea! Do you get your insights only from interviewing the founders? Or from books etc.? Or a mixture of both, perhaps?
Ali AbouelAtta
@vasgo its a mix of all three. For example the Bloomberg issue, I read his three biography books to put it together. Airbnb, Uber, Doordash was very research intensive. Tara, Pageflows and DoNotPay were interviews...
Süheyla Şeker
This is awesome, really helpful, especially to product designers to have one central place where case studies are collected! Congrats!
Ali AbouelAtta
@suheyla_seker THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Edward Park
This is what I've been looking for. Congrats on your launching!
Ali AbouelAtta
@edward_park_ Thanks edward...I hope i can live up to your expectation
Ankit Ghosh
Congrats on your launch Ali, saw you first on Newsletter Geeks and love your content. BTW what tool do you use for referral? (I'm this close to implement my own internal tool)
Ali AbouelAtta
@nutpanda I implemented my own....happy to make a github fork for you though...
Ankit Ghosh
@ali_abou_el_atta Haha I made mine too but would love to have a look, let me know if you upload that to GitHub
Eivind Håverstad
This is great. I’ve subscribed. Looking forwart to future content!
Ali AbouelAtta
@eivindhaa Thanks for your trust Eivind....will do my best to live up to it
Tim Masek
Such a great newsletter! Keep it up, we want more !! :)
Samuel Briskar
Congratulations to the launch. I am happy to see that avatarz was useful! :-)
Ali AbouelAtta
@samuel_briskar EXTREMELY USEFUL!!! LIFESAVER
Omar Barakat
Great idea!! Super helpful for finding creative ways to acquire customers. Well done @ali_abou_el_atta 🥳
Ali AbouelAtta
@_omarbarakat <3 <3 <3. My number one supporter in anything I do
Jonathan Libov
I’m a long-time reader and fan @ali_abou_el_atta. So much so that I was recently toying with the idea of commissioning you to research the company/product I’m trying to displace with my own. have you considered this as part of the business model?
Ali AbouelAtta
@libovness Thanks for the kind words Jonathan and your support. my twitter DMs are open! Lets talk 😉
Jack Davis
This is huge as the first 1,000 customers is the hardest by far!
Ali AbouelAtta
@jack_davis7 IT IS and thats why we are trying to make it a little bit easier for founders
Skip
Subscribed, thanks for sharing!
Ali AbouelAtta
@skipvs thank you for subscribing
Jaisal Rathee
Brilliant! Congrats on launching. +1 from me :) Looking forward to the first one.
Andrew Kirima
This newsletter encompasses a great mixture of delivery and length. Unique and not long so you stay focused till the end. One of my favorite weekly subscriptions!
Ali AbouelAtta
@andrew_kirima1 THANK YOU ANDREW FOR THE KIND WORDS.
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Ali AbouelAtta
@jkristobans Thats an honor Juris.