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We're still very early and have been trying the usual things to get our first customers cold email, DMs, outreach etc. Disclosure: I’m the founder of Dusken. Then someone signed up who we'd never contacted. They found us through Google. They used Dusken for a few days and then disappeared. I assumed they had decided it wasn't for them. A few days later I found out they had tried another product in the same space. Then they came back to Dusken and paid. That was our first paying customer. What I found interesting was how wrong my interpretation of the initial data was. If I'd looked at it simply: signup → active for a few days → inactive I'd have called that a failed activation. But the actual journey was: signup → use → compare alternatives → leave → return → pay It made me wonder how much early-stage SaaS teams misread this kind of behavior. We tend to obsess over: activation time to value day-1 retention conversion All useful metrics, obviously. But when you only have a handful of users, a single person leaving can look like a definitive signal when they're actually still evaluating the category. I'm now much more interested in understanding what happens between "they stopped using it" and "they actually decided." For founders who've gone through the 0 → 1 stage: Did you have a customer who initially looked lost/churned but eventually came back and converted? What did you learn from it?   submitted by   /u/StackToScale [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/26 23:45:19