I'm building the Letterboxd for music here's what 3 months of daily posting and 1 organic signup taught me

The idea
I'm building Auracle a multi-category rating platform for music, film, and anime. Think Letterboxd meets RateYourMusic.The core features are interactive rating tools — track-by-track album ratings, shareable visual score cards, and community rankings. The whole experience is designed around making your taste look good and feel fun to share.
The stack
React + Supabase (PostgreSQL, auth, row-level security). I built about 90% of it using AI mostly Claude. Vibe coded the entire thing. I'm not a traditional developer; I'm a commercial real estate broker by day. I went from idea to live product in weeks instead of months because I was basically pair-programming with an LLM for every feature.
What's working

2,500 site visitors in my first week, no paid ads, no Reddit push
I post daily across YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Reels, Twitter, and Threads
Shorts get 200–1,000 views per post consistently
The content is genuinely differentiated nothing else in the music rating space looks or feels like this
Every post has a clear CTA driving to the site

I'm also building toward aggregate community rankings ("The Auracle community ranked every Kendrick album here's where yours lands") so there's a social reason to participate, not just consume.
A note on the business model (or lack of one)
I know the prevailing wisdom right now especially in this community is to target pain points, build something people will pay for, validate before you build. I get it. I'm actually doing exactly that with a separate project in the commercial real estate space, where the pain points are obvious and the willingness to pay is real.
Auracle is different. I'll be honest this will probably never be a big money-maker. I'm not deluding myself about that. But not every project needs to be a SaaS with MRR goals. I think there's something worth building here: a community of people who care deeply about music and want a better, more visual, more fun way to express their taste. If that turns into something with real traction, I'll figure out monetization then. For now, the goal is just to build something people actually want to use and see if a community forms around it.
The bigger lesson
Everyone says your product needs to solve a pain point. I spent weeks trying to force-fit that framing onto Auracle and it led me nowhere. It doesn't solve a pain point. Neither does Letterboxd. Neither does RYM. They scratch an itch: "I have opinions about this thing I love and nowhere satisfying to express them."
Culture platforms don't grow by solving pain they grow by creating identity. The question isn't "what problem does this fix?" It's "does using this make someone feel like a more interesting music person?" I think the answer is yes. I just need to give people a reason to actually commit to it with a signup.
The numbers, fully transparent

Revenue: $0
Monthly impressions: ~30K+ across platforms
Stack cost: basically free (Supabase free tier, Vercel)

If you're building a consumer product in the culture/media space, I'd love to hear how you cracked the cold-start problem. And if you want to roast the site, go for it — getauracle.co.