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How Adrian acquired customers
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I was a psychology major in college. One day I learned about Uber and decided I wanted to be in tech. So I moved to San Francisco, attended a coding bootcamp, worked for Lyft, and delivered food on my bicycle.
I built my 'Web Scraping Guy' brand on social media and launched a course that made $20K in its first three days.
I relied on Twitter DMs - personalised outreach to potential customers. A CTO became a paying customer after I tweeted about scraping their site.
Build an audience around your expertise before launching your product
Personal brand matters - being "The Web Scraping Guy" attracted customers
Twitter DMs and personalized outreach can be more effective than paid ads
Focus on one thing instead of multiple side projects
Adrian achieved 3 milestones on the path to $10K MRR
$50
$1,000
$10,000
The journey, decisions, and context behind this milestone
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