How to get your first 500 users for your SaaS

Hello everyone. Here are some tips on how to get your first 500 users for your SaaS.

Getting your first 500 users takes work, but it's possible if you follow a plan. If I were starting a new software business today, here are the 5 steps I'd take:

1. Find a real problem people have. Think about problems you deal with yourself or problems in areas you know well.
2. Talk to at least 10 people who have this problem. Ask them questions (like in surveys or calls): How do they handle it now? How much does it bother them? Would they pay for a solution?
3. Build a basic version of your product (an MVP) that solves the main problem. Don't add extra features yet, just make sure it works.
4. Let the people you talked to use your basic product for free. Ask them what they think. Use their feedback to improve it. Then, tell people about it in online groups where potential users hang out to get your first 100 users.
5. Improve the product based on what those first users say. Then, launch it on Product Hunt to get even more users.

Hopefully this helps some of you