When you’re starting a bootstrapped SaaS business, you have to find a painful problem to solve. For that, you have to find an audience first. But how do you figure out if the audience is big enough to support your business today and five years from now?
You are looking for painful problems, and you want to solve the most painful of them all. You also need to validate that this is an actual problem that people need to have addressed. Sometimes, we just want to complain, but we don’t want to change our ways. You will need to find a problem so painful that we just have to deal with it.
Comment seeding (or comment traffic generation) can be traced back to the blog era, where people would mass-comment on other websites. The username and the comment content served as advertisements. By commenting on hundreds or thousands of sites, one could continuously bring in a steady stream of traffic. The veteran blogger Lu Songsong, a well-known figure in the site owner community, insisted on commenting under various blog posts back then, which provided significant help to his later traffic and fame. ...