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A comment on Ask HN: How do I get users to engage?.

Re:Ask HN: How do I get users to engage? by sebg on Monday November 24, 2014 @11:49AM (#8653216)
1) Find out where people who run cron jobs hang out

2) Figure out what they care about

3) Engage them to figure out what problems they have

4) Figure out if/how your app helps them solve the problems they have and show them how you can make their lives better

5) Repeat steps 1-4 indefinitely.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get users to engage? by AznHisoka on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:20PM (#8659789)
#1 is hard, because it's so abstract. There's no specific problem domain. Suggestion: find a specific use case and build a customized, paid solution for that with an easy to understand value proposition. What problem are you trying to solve? Cron jobs are just an implementation.
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