Day 3 post-launch. No viral moment. Still shipping.
A few days ago I posted here about launching Orqis and getting 4 upvotes on Product Hunt.
Here's where I'm at now:
- Posted on Reddit — got removed by filters
- 0 Twitter followers
- Still no paying users
- Still here
I'm not writing this because I have a success story. I'm writing it because I think the "day 3 with no traction" experience is underrepresented compared to the launch day dopamine posts.
What I'm learning about distribution from zero
Building the product was the part I knew how to do. This part — getting anyone to care — is completely different, and nobody really prepares you for how quiet it is at the start.
So I'm doing the unglamorous stuff:
- Replying to relevant conversations on Twitter instead of posting into the void
- Looking for Reddit threads where someone is manually solving the exact problem Orqis solves
- Doing cold outreach and asking for feedback, not sales
- Posting here, honestly, instead of waiting until I have better numbers to show
What Orqis actually does
Paste an OpenAPI spec URL → get a working AI agent that calls your API in plain English. No code, no boilerplate, no prompt engineering.
The hard part wasn't building it — it was making it reliable. LLMs send partial payloads on write operations, hallucinate success when API calls fail, and confidently give wrong answers when something is misconfigured. Most of my time went into fixing those failure modes.
If you've been through this phase — the post-launch silence — I'd genuinely love to hear what moved the needle for you.
And if you work with APIs and want to try it: orqisai.com — free to start.
