Quick honest update on where things actually stand.
The good: spent the last two days doing a brutal pre-launch audit. Found and fixed a Stripe secret key that was somehow set to the wrong API key entirely, missing webhook endpoints that meant payments wouldn't have actually activated Pro access, a price mismatch between the landing page and checkout, and a stale compiled-files bug that meant my last several fixes weren't even loading locally. Ran a full Playwright test suite through every core feature — leads, proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking, sequences, the works. Everything passes now.
The frustrating: Reddit has been a different story entirely. Posted a genuine, rule-compliant founder story in two different subs over two days, no links, no spam, real engagement-first comment history beforehand — both got auto-removed by Reddit's sitewide spam filters within minutes, no subreddit mod even involved. Looks like one early flag put the account into some kind of cooldown state where almost anything new gets caught regardless of content quality. Lesson learned the hard way: don't post a "soft" story and a separate promo comment with overlapping specific details in the same sub on the same day — that's apparently exactly the pattern these filters are tuned to catch right now.
So today was a write-off for new users, but not for time. The product is in a genuinely solid state for the first time, and tomorrow I'm easing back into Reddit with comments only for a few days before trying posts again.
Anyone dealt with this kind of sitewide Reddit flagging before? Did it resolve on its own, or did you have to do something specific to shake it?
Reddit fighting you usually means account trust, not product quality. What helped me: zero links for 2 weeks, reply only where you can answer something specific, stick to 2 small subs. The grind isn't writing replies — it's finding fresh threads daily where someone already describes the problem. What's the product?