# First 50 Users > Get the first 50 real users through channels the founder's ICP already uses. Use when the product shipped and nobody came, the founder is "posting more" with no result, or is reaching for paid ads before product-market fit. - **Type:** Skill - **Install:** `agentstack add skill-aidevgtm-gtm-cofounder-first-50-users` - **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior - **Seller:** [AIDevGTM](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/aidevgtm) - **Installs:** 0 - **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills) - **Latest version:** 0.1.0 - **License:** MIT - **Upstream author:** [AIDevGTM](https://github.com/AIDevGTM) - **Source:** https://github.com/AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder/tree/main/skills/first-50-users - **Website:** https://gtmcofounder.com ## Install ```sh agentstack add skill-aidevgtm-gtm-cofounder-first-50-users ``` Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent. ## About # Your first 50 users > You don't get your first 50 users by posting more. You get them by going where your users *already* discover tools, and, at the start, by doing things that don't scale. **Use this when:** you launched to silence, you're spraying every channel hoping one works, or you're about to buy ads to fix a problem ads can't fix. ## The core idea Every developer audience has an existing **technology-discovery loop**: the specific places they already go to find new tools. Your job isn't to invent demand; it's to position yourself *inside that loop*. And your first cohort is hand-to-hand: the TAB members from `talk-to-users` are your first users. ## Framework: the top of the DREAM funnel (Frankl) - **Discovery**: be where developers look: the communities, newsletters, influencers, and searches your ICP already uses. Metric: unique humans, not pageviews. - **Research**: give the interested dev a next step *before they forget you*: newsletter, Discord, free tier, docs. Developers can sit in Research for months, so sustain the relationship. Then **Evaluation** decides everything (see `know-if-its-working`): can a new dev get value **over a weekend, from docs and Stack Overflow, with no support call?** If not, more traffic just fills a leaky bucket. ## Framework: channels by stage (Czakon) **Pre-PMF (you are here for the first 50):** unscalable, direct, high-touch. - The people who posted about the problem (HN/Reddit/GitHub issues/X), DM them, personally. - Your TAB → convert to design partners / first users. - Founder posting *genuinely useful* things where the ICP hangs out (not "we launched!"). - One deep launch (see `launch-it`), not ten shallow ones. **Post-PMF (later):** content/SEO, community, dev-influencer partnerships, then paid to *amplify* what already converts, never to *discover* it. ## How to pick the channel (don't do all of them) From `talk-to-users` question 7 ("where do you go to stay current?"), you already have the answer. Rank channels by **where your specific ICP is**, and go deep on **one** before adding a second. ``` Is your ICP concentrated somewhere specific (a subreddit, a Discord, a conference, a tag)? ├─ YES → go all-in there first. Depth beats spread at 0→50. └─ NO → your ICP may be too broad → tighten it in `who-is-this-for`. ``` ## Mistakes that look reasonable - **"Post more"**: volume without a channel thesis is noise. - **Paid ads pre-PMF**: you'll pay to accelerate a message that doesn't convert yet. - **Building a community at 5 users**: a Discord with 3 lurkers is a graveyard that signals "dead." Wait for real traction. - **Optimizing acquisition over a leaky bucket**: if week-2 retention is near zero, fix Evaluation/Activation first. - **Launching ten times, shallow**: one well-prepared launch > ten "we shipped X" tweets. ## Your next 30 minutes - [ ] Write down the 3 exact places your ICP discovers tools (pull from `talk-to-users` Q7). - [ ] List 20 people who publicly posted about your problem. DM 5 today, helpful, not pitchy. - [ ] Turn your best 5 TAB members into your first 5 users this week. - [ ] Confirm a new user can hit first value **in under an hour**. If not, that's the real priority. --- Built from real dev-tool GTM experience, with frameworks from Adam Frankl (*The Developer-Facing Startup*) and Jakub Czakon (*markepear.dev*). When a framework can't make the call, that's what a human is for: [The DevTool GTM Company](https://thedevtoolgtmcompany.com). ## Source & license This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code. - **Author:** [AIDevGTM](https://github.com/AIDevGTM) - **Source:** [AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder](https://github.com/AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder) - **License:** MIT - **Homepage:** https://gtmcofounder.com Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above. ## Pricing - **Free** — Free ## Security capabilities Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access: - **Network access:** no - **Filesystem access:** no - **Shell / process execution:** no - **Environment & secrets:** no - **Dynamic code execution:** no *"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.* ## Versions - **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source. ## Links - Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-aidevgtm-gtm-cofounder-first-50-users - Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/aidevgtm - Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse --- Listed on AgentStack — the marketplace for AI agent skills and MCP servers. 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