
We need to choose our heroes carefully (Details in the comment)
u/Amit_Phulwani — 8 days ago

I track every signup source religiously. Here's where my last 200 signups came from:
Reddit: 89 signups (44%)
Organic Google: 41 (20%)
Twitter/X: 28 (14%)
Direct/dark social: 24 (12%)
Product Hunt: 11 (5%)
LinkedIn: 7 (3%)
Reddit is nearly double everything else combined — and I spend $0 on it.
The catch: you can't post like a marketer. Every post I've made that performed well was genuinely helpful first, product mention buried at the end or in comments.
The posts that flopped were the ones that opened with "I built a tool that…"
Subreddits that converted best for me: r/SaaS, r/microsaas, r/entrepreneur. r/startups converts poorly — too much noise.