customer of. Cheri Mims from Lillybelle Flower Shop and Sightglass Coffee House is a businessman we can travel and communicate together. He is the first customer to use our products every day. We visit every week to see what methods work and where we need to improve. We have been in contact with local companies that have connections with us and convinced some of them to use Square in the early days.
Cameron Walters, the founding team of Square
Hacker News (information aggregation site): Segment
In the beginning, we actually launched it as an open source library of Hacker News (an information aggregation website, focusing on technology, venture capital, etc.), but it was a success. The first customers are those who hang out on Hacker News, mostly small companies. The founders were looking for ways to better test their web applications and mobile applications with analysis and tracking, and then they saw us.
Peter Reinhardt Segment CEO
Hacker News: Airtable
First friends and family, then Howie released a beta version on Hacker News (I saw this product on Hacker News myself). Later, the most important user development mechanism was word-of-mouth “remote”.
At the time, we didn’t even really focus on B2B—when I joined Airtable, the company was doing both B2B and B2C businesses.
An anonymous early employee of Airtable