With No First Customers, Should a Solo Founder Stop Adding Features?
After one week of promotion, the service has only one somewhat active user. Submissions to online product began on July 6. shows about 200 appearances in search results every 24 hours, but no clicks.
The immediate goal is to reach 10 customers, even if all of them use the . The main decision is whether to build more features or keep the product as it is and focus on finding those first 10 customers.
Key points
- Only one somewhat active user arrived during the first week of promotion.
- Product- submissions started on July 6.
- The site gets about 200 search appearances per day but no clicks.
- The first target is 10 customers, including people on the .
- The founder must choose between adding features and concentrating on customer outreach.