Finding first users is the real bottleneck after building an app
For solo app makers, the hardest part may be finding the first users, not building the product. experience shows that products built with many hours of work often get abandoned when and were not planned early. Launching on common channels like Twitter and can lead to almost no response, which quickly drains motivation.
The next step would be finding likely users, writing direct messages, and managing , but that work feels much harder after a quiet launch. It is easy to decide that a product failed because nobody wanted it, but the bigger problem may be that it never reached the people who could benefit from it.
Key points
- Many solo app makers struggle most with getting their first users.
- Thinking about only after launch makes the work harder.
- Posting on Twitter and may bring little or no response.
- and can feel exhausting after a quiet launch.
- A product may look like a failure simply because it never reached the right people.