I tried 17 different marketing tactics and here's what actually got me my first 100 users

I sent the same link to three Slack channels last Tuesday and realized I had zero way of knowing which one drove the 47 signups I saw that morning. Honestly, it was a bit of a panic - I'd been trying to get my first 100 users for months, and suddenly it seemed like I was on the cusp of something, but I had no idea what was working. I was using a simple curl command to check the number of signups, but it wasn't giving me any insight into where they were coming from - I was flying blind. Why curl wasn't enough I was trying to track my signups using a simple bash script, which would curl my website every hour and check for changes. However, this approach had a major flaw - it couldn't differentiate between signups from different sources. I was using a single link for all my marketing efforts, and I had no way of knowing which channel was driving the most conversions. I tried to use curl with different user agents to simulate traffic from different devices, but it was a hacky solution at b