I've posted everywhere and gotten zero sales. Here's what I'm learning about why

Living this exact lesson right now. Posted a genuine story to Reddit from a new-ish account and it got auto-removed within minutes — not because it was bad, but because a new account + a link just reads as promo to the filter. What's working instead: being useful in threads where someone's already describing the problem, no link, for a while first — slower, but by the time they check you out they already half-trust you. Any channel that's surprised you on conversion?

The first 10 for me didn't come from posting into feeds at all — they came from answering questions in threads where someone was already describing the exact problem, days or weeks before I had anything to link to. By the time I mentioned what I'd built, they already knew me from a few genuinely useful replies.

Reddit banning you is a strong signal worth sitting with, not just bad luck — it usually means the post read as promo to mods even if it didn't feel that way to you. The fix isn't a better post, it's showing up as a person answering questions in that community for a while before you ever mention what you built.

"Broadcasting before validating" is the right diagnosis. The slower fix: find where people already complain about this exact problem, and be useful there first.

Broadcasting to empty rooms is the #1 trap. What shifted for me: instead of posting about my product, I started replying to existing conversations where people already described the problem. Each reply put me in front of an audience that was already engaged with the topic — no cold start.

"Posted everywhere" with zero sales usually means you showed up in launch channels, not where buyers already describe the pain in their own words.

Curious: are you hunting Reddit / niche forums for that language yet, or still mostly broadcast (IH/X/PH)?

I built a scored thread digest for indie founders (discovery only, not auto-posting). If useful, I can map a sample on a 10-min call — or send a feed if you drop one-liner + 3–5 subs + pain phrases.

Zero sales after broad posting is enough signal to stop adding channels. I'd pick one narrow health use case, recruit five people who already spend money or time on it, and watch them attempt one task before asking them to buy. The decision gate isn't social proof yet; it's whether 3 of 5 complete the workflow and ask to keep using it.

The interesting shift isn't from broadcasting to validating—it's from looking for channels to looking for evidence that anyone urgently needs the problem solved. I'd keep validating whether the lack of sales comes from weak distribution or from not yet finding a group of people who already know they have the problem your product solves. Those require completely different next steps.