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positive feedback is the biggest lie in startups bcz people are generally polite especially in person. the only real feedback is a credit card swipe or actual usage data. if u have to do the setup…

The part that stood out to me: everyone was convinced during the demo; nobody used it after. That's actually a really common and painful pattern. What people say they'll do and what they actually do…

setting everything up for that guy and still watching him not use it... that's the real answer right there. not culture, not trust. the old chinglish excel just wasn't painful enough to switch from.…

Yeah, you hit the classic issue. People give positive feedback because they're being polite or they like the concept in theory. Different thing entirely from "I will change my workflow for this."…

My "builder trap" experience and how I try to learn from it Recently I've been a bit more active on Reddit, as I'm building another startup. I made a [post…

the 'fair warning' section is doing a lot of work here in a good way. most tools hide the setup complexity and users get frustrated when it doesn't just work. targeting people who already run recap…

The thing that usually gets annoying later is consistency, like scripts, pacing, scene picks start drifting after a few videos what helped me was just locking a simple flow for every video (script →…

I built a tool that automates movie recap videos and started selling it, here is what I made Hey everyone. Making recap videos takes forever. Script, voiceover, subtitles, scene selection, syncing…

I went directly to niche Facebook groups and Reddit communities where my target audience already hangs out. I posted something super specific about their pain point and offered my product for free to…

think and usually means one of two things - either the product isnt solving a real pain point or the onboarding is confusing enough that people bounce before experiencing value. I made this…

For early/test users, the best channel has usually been direct conversations, not launches. Find people who already complain about the problem, reply/help first, then ask if they’d be…

Where do/did you get your first/test users? Hey guys, real question here. We have launched our first product about a week and a half ago (soft launch with pretty much no marketing or warmups). So…

I went through the same “this sounds sick on Twitter, let’s build it” loop and burned like a year on ideas nobody was actually begging for. What changed it for me was forcing everything through a…

The manual Reddit phase is underrated and most people skip it. Doing it by hand first actually matters — you develop intuition for what “real pain” looks like versus venting or feature requests that…

The founder of Zignalify posted recently about using AI to scrape Reddit for natural complaints, scaling to $2.3k MRR almost immediately. People treat these subreddits like a massive, unstructured…

This resonates hard. I did the same thing, building stuff that sounded cool, only to realize nobody asked for it. The "actively frustrated right now" vs "sounds cool" distinction is everything, and…

The hard part for me is separating "people complain about this" from "pell change behavior for this." I like that you're looking for repeated pain across communities, but I'd still want one manual…

This seems like the solution to the problem of maximum people bcs we can build something but we dont know what to build We can now find the actual pain points people are facing and build a solution…

I was building the wrong things. So I built a system to stop doing that. When I started looking for my next idea, I had no process. I'd scroll Twitter, see something interesting, get excited, start…

We changed our onboarding and pricing model and went from 9 users to 20+ in 3 days. I made a post here last week about trying to get the first users for Causo and got a lot of genuinely useful…