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Hi, I’ve been building A3, a developer platform for deploying frontend apps to decentralized infrastructure, fast, simple and free. It eliminates the chance of suprising bills, suprising censorship and suprising outages. Two weeks ago I won my first entrepeneur competition with A3, it was great but what the jury told me still sits inside me: Your project is great and we really wish you can actually find people to use it. I am still very young and have no experience in scaling a platform to thousands of users so I come here to share my wins and loses and find the right people to help me scale my dream.

Has anyone here tried running a contest or challenge to grow their SaaS userbase?

I am trying to organize a 48-hour web design challenge with a decent prize pool. I paid for ads in instagram, tried promoting it in different discord servers and facebook groups. Optimized the page of the contest, used relevent tools like Luma.
We raised money more than $600 in 3 days to give for rewards, and we are still in talks with other partners.
I thought especially young people would be way more motivated to win some easy money from just doing a quick website and submiting it online, so i tried specifically targeting young devs.

Still getting very few registrations. Curious if this is just a hard channel in general or if we're missing something obvious. What actually worked for you to get developers to try a new tool?

Hey everyone, I’m building A3 — a frontend deployment platform kind like Vercel, but deployed on blockchain infrastructure.
The important part: you don’t need a wallet, crypto, or any blockchain knowledge.
Soo everything is great, but I have been having a hard time finding new devs to actually give it a try. So I’m curious: what would make you trust a tool like this enough to deploy a small project on it? If someone has interest in trying it : https://a3icp.com