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I launched SubPulse with 0 users. Here's what happened after 90 days

We got 152 ad clicks and zero signups. The bug wasn't the ads — it was 3 clicks away from the money.

I treat early comment questions as a positioning test before the louder launch day

I built a PDF API because generating PDFs in production is way more annoying than it looks

I went through 290 founders' MRR posts. The ones past $10k got their first customers a different way

I read about 60 indie launch pages this month. The same 12 invisible bugs kept coming back

My first paying customer came from 151 impressions. What their first day looked like

Took the "go find where the question is already being asked" advice literally. Here's what happened.

People kept asking what happens after the 14 days. The honest answer was "nothing", and it was costing me money

Problem with getting first clients

I built too many features into my PDF app. So I cut most of them.

Four launch posts, zero clicks. So I measured the places we're all told to launch

$0 revenue on two finance templates that took months to build right — what am I missing on distribution?

Where did your first paying user actually come from?

70% of our template library was actively harmful to the market we were selling to

I spent 2 years doing audience research manually. Now I'm trying to turn it into a business