Pick where you want to go. Every route starts with a move you can make within the hour.
Open your deployed Hive Brief, follow the guide's first run section and write this week's brief with two friends and see who earned what. Screenshot every moment that felt good or confusing. This is your first demo and your first bug list.
Go through the research DAO or analyst chat you already belong to, your DMs and your contacts. Write 20 names with one line each on why Hive Brief 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 Hive Brief, it lets a group write one living briefing together and splits the sponsor payment by the lines that survive edits. 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: $30 for a sponsored brief. 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 Hive Brief these two weeks. I'm moving to paid next week at $30. 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 briefs published. 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 DEMOYour highlights and annotations on any article become a collectible, tippable layer others can subscribe to.