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NEW ARTICLES ON THE SITE
By Zubin Koticha
TLDR: we built a little consumer app in a day. It went viral, bringing us leads, but more importantly, it allowed us to become users of our own product, Dawn.
Everyone in SaaS should be trying this.
How we did it👇
A Small Viral Experiment:
A few weeks ago, we realized we had a little problem.
We're building Dawn, analytics for AI products, especially conversational ones. But we aren't a conversational AI product.
This can be a disadvantage. So a few weeks ago, we started looking to fix this.
Inspired by Wordware's amazing Twitter roast app, we came up with a plan.
We'd build a small conversational AI app (called ChatGPTPrank), hook it up to Dawn for analytics, and make it go viral. After finalizing the app, we posted it on Twitter, Reddit, + Hackernews - and it went viral almost immediately, getting us tons of inbound leads.
The best part: The whole thing took < two hours...
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