Biggest hurdle for me right now: I Built something… Then i realized gaining an Audience is harder than building
I thought building the product would be the hardest part.
It wasn’t.
I built a marketing intelligence tool that helps people running ads understand what their data actually means and what to do next.
The real problem I’m trying to solve is this:
Most people don’t struggle with running ads —
they struggle with deciding:
when to scale
when to pause
when to wait
That decision point is where most money gets lost.
But now I’m hitting a different wall.
I have:
no audience
no distribution
no reputation
So when I talk about it, it feels like noise.
Not because the product isn’t useful —
but because I haven’t earned attention yet.
What’s interesting is…
I drive Uber full time, so I talk to people all day.
But almost none of them are the people who actually need what I built.
So now I’m trying to figure out:
how do you go from 0 → your first real users
without sounding like you’re just trying to sell something?
I’ve started engaging on Reddit and here,
but I’m realizing:
Building something people need
and getting it in front of them
are two completely different problems.
For those of you who’ve been here before:
What actually worked for you
when you had no audience and no traction?
