The library

Marketing experiments

What founders tried, what it cost, and what happened. Every number shown was disclosed by the founder.

38 experiments

RedditDidn't work

0
human visits from launch: 183
r/microsaas launch posts analysed: 7
days

Four launch posts, zero clicks — so she measured where everyone says to launch

Biyun Hu · Verilabs Audit

Biyun Hu launched a Stripe app with four posts in a week and tracked every visit with her own beacon: zero human visits. She then analysed 600 r/microsaas posts — 42% of launch posts survived moderation, and the median survivor got 1 upvote.

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CommunitiesDidn't work

5
new subscribers: 4
reddit bans: 30
days

Banned on Substack, Reddit and Etsy in month one — for offering free promotion

Alexander Belyanin · tinyfound

Alexander Belyanin launched tinyfound, a newsletter of founders' first-customer stories, and spent month one offering people free write-ups of their own stories. The result: 5 new subscribers, banned four times on Reddit, banned on Substack, temporarily on Etsy — and Gmail started marking his emails as spam.

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