Pick where you want to go. Every route starts with a move you can make within the hour.
Open your deployed Budget Garden, follow the guide's first run section and run a tiny round with five people on a real small budget. Screenshot every moment that felt good or confusing. This is your first demo and your first bug list.
Go through the parent, club or community group you belong to, your DMs and your contacts. Write 20 names with one line each on why Budget Garden would help them. Real names, not personas.
Send a short personal message, not a pitch deck. Offer free use for a month in return for 15 minutes of honest feedback. Track replies on a sheet.
Hey [name], I just launched Budget Garden, it gives every resident equal seeds to plant across proposals, shows the garden bloom live, and pays the winners by contract with receipts. I built it with you in mind after [the thing they posted or said]. Would you try it free for a month and tell me in 15 minutes what is broken? No pitch, I just want it to be useful.
After two weeks of free use, tell your active users the price: $50 for a budgeting round. Ask directly. Anyone who says yes is your first customer; anyone who says no gets one question: what would make it worth it?
Thanks for using Budget Garden these two weeks. I'm moving to paid next week at $50. You have used it [X] times, so I wanted to ask you first. Want to keep going? If not, what would make it worth that to you?
Make a sheet with weekly users, paying users, revenue and seeds planted. Update it every Monday for 12 weeks. Decide one change per week from what the numbers say.
Leave an email and we nudge you at 24 and 72 hours with your next move. Optional.
Or to keep this voyage on your profile.
LIVE DEMOA neighbourhood treasury where proposals unlock only after enough real neighbours physically show up.