Building Soepia, my startup, while in college, how did you get your first users? Help me
I’m building my first startup and wanted to ask something here because I honestly don’t have much experience with marketing yet.
The project is called Soepia. I’ve been working on it for around 2 years while also going through college. It started from a problem I had myself as a student: too many PDFs, notes, classes, deadlines, and no clear way to organize everything into a real study plan.
Soepia is basically an EdTech project where AI helps students organize their materials and create a clearer learning path.
I had help and feedback from professors during the process, but most of the time it has just been me trying things, changing the product, fixing stuff, and learning as I go.
Now I feel like I need to stop only building and start learning how to actually get users.
For people here who built their first company, how did you get your first users?
Did you use content, SEO, cold messages, paid ads, partnerships, Reddit, TikTok, LinkedIn, or something else?
Also, how did you talk about your product in the beginning without sounding too salesy?
Any advice would help. I’m still figuring this part out.