Ask HN: How do I acquire users?
Out of curiosity I&#x27;ve followed the link to see what it is.  I&#x27;m pretty sure before-hand that I&#x27;m not in your target audience, so this will be less useful that it might, but I will give you my reactions as I go.<p>Understand ... I appreciate that you&#x27;ve done a lot of work, and the implementation looks excellent.  There&#x27;s a lot here that&#x27;s good, but I suspect it&#x27;s entirely in the implementation, and not in the targeted marketing.<p>So ...<p>Firstly visit ... two thirds of the screen tells me this is &quot;DomeCode&quot;.  That is great branding, but it doesn&#x27;t help me understand what it is, what it does, what it does <i>for me</i>, or why I should even scroll down.<p>In writing, every sentence should be a reason to read the next one.<p>It also says &quot;Get more. With less hassle. Free &amp; Open Source.&quot;<p>That tells me nothing that helps me understand why I should look further.  There is no indication of what it will do for me.<p>I scroll down one page.  Taking the text there phrase by phrase:<p>&quot;DomeCode is an open source platform ...&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t care ... what does it do for me?  Being Open Source is something I would care about once I&#x27;ve thought &quot;This is useful, should I use it?&quot;  On my first visit, first impression, this is not something I care about.<p>&quot;... you can advance your coding journey ...&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know what this means.  Is it a learning platform?  A Coding Dojo?  Somewhere I can develop advance projects?  Who is this aimed at?  Beginners?  Professionals?  Developers?  Non-coders who need to learn a little?<p>&quot; ... with compiled resources ...&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know what this means.  You&#x27;ve gather things that coders will need?  You&#x27;ve <i>made</i> things that programmers will need?<p>&quot;... to learn programming concepts, ...&quot;<p>As a beginner?<p>&quot; ... take notes, plan tasks, ...&quot;<p>What kinds of tasks ... coding?  Contracts?  Household chores?<p>&quot;... practice coding problems, ...&quot;<p>Set by whom?  Found where?  In what language or languages?  Are they graded?  Are there answers?<p>&quot;... discuss interesting stuff on the forum, meet other developers ...&quot;<p>Only if there are developers ... yes, chicken and egg, I know.<p>And what sort of other developers?  Front-End?  Back-End?  SysOp?  Embedded?<p>&quot;... and most all even get to listen to music conveniently ...&quot;<p>At this point, personally, I&#x27;m out.  I don&#x27;t listen to music while I code.<p>OK, I&#x27;ll stop there and summarise.<p>When I look at the first page I can&#x27;t see any reason to read further.  When I read the second page I have more questions than answers, and no reason to read further, and then I end up feeling it&#x27;s just not for me.<p>But maybe it&#x27;s <i>not for me ... as I said, I&#x27;m probably not your target audience.<p>Who did you write this for?  Did you have some target users on board right from the start?  Did you pre-alpha launch with some people actually using it?  Or did you implement everything and then try to market it?<p>It feels ... undirected.<p></i>Added in edit ...*<p>I&#x27;ve read more of your other comments.  It seems that you are targeting early-stage programmers.  Do you think HN will be a source of users?<p>If you want customers, you have to go to where the customers will be.  To do that you need to decide who your customers are.