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From 0 to first paid unlock: building an AI-product behavior diagnostic

I’m trying to grow a mobile app without relying on paid ads. Here’s my experiment.

I’m trying to grow a mobile app without relying on paid ads. Here’s my experiment.

I spent a week building my app's differentiator, then found four competitors already shipping it

I thought I had 332 backlinks. I have one. Also a claim on my own site was wrong for four weeks.

I thought I had 332 backlinks. I have one. Also a claim on my own site was wrong for four weeks.

A reply about email lists got me thinking about what I could actually offer!

How are you getting your first real users for your SaaS or AI product?

Distribution is the bit I always skip, so I built a free tool for it

Distribution is the bit I always skip, so I built a free tool for it

80+ people used a feature I never announced. Here's what I learned.

I’m building something people might love but never use.

2,000 upvotes on Reddit, 0 signups. I stopped launching and started commenting. 11 customers later.

I shipped 129 pull requests to my SEO SaaS in the last 7 days — solo, with Claude Code doing most of the typing

Built an AI-visibility tool that also gets you cited, not just tracks it

SEO 3x'd my traffic. Signups dropped to zero. Here's what actually drives first customers in vertical SaaS.

I got banned marketing my own products on Reddit, so I built a tool. 19 months later: 400 paying founders, $56K, zero ads

700 downloads and stuck — five months later...

I told a founder to get listed on the review sites. Her report showed AI was citing her competitors' homepages.

I could not tell if Google's AI Overview was citing my sites, so I built a way to check