Launched Countspace today. First real feedback made me realize my hero is broken.
Shipped Countspace publicly today after building nights and weekends. It's a countdown-boards app — instead of one countdown per URL like every other site, you stack multiple on a single shareable board and share it with one link.
Went full Reddit-launch mode this morning. Posted to 7 subs. 3 landed (r/SideProject, r/nextjs, r/EntrepreneurRideAlong), 4 got auto-filtered (r/indiehackers karma req, r/Supabase's Reddit-wide spam filter, r/SaaS AI-content detection, r/webdev only allows feedback posts on Saturdays). Learned more about Reddit's filter logic in 6 hours than a year of casual reading.
The valuable part wasn't the traffic. Three unrelated commenters landed on the same insight from different angles — my landing page explains the concept in words when it should just show a personal example board upfront ("summer trip + wedding + festival" style). Hurt but it was the single most valuable feedback I got today. Rewriting the hero this week.
Also caught something bigger: for a share-link product the homepage might not even be the load-bearing surface. The board someone shares IS the ad. The real metric to watch is whether viewing someone's shared board makes you want your own.
Stack: Next.js 15, Supabase (Postgres + RLS + Realtime), Vercel, Stripe. Free tier 3 countdowns, Pro $7/mo unlimited + video/image backgrounds + password-protected boards.
Would love to compare notes with anyone else at the "first day of real traffic" stage.
The line that your shared board might matter more than the homepage was the most interesting part of the post. That's one of those observations that only shows up after real people start passing links around.
I can picture someone getting sent a Countspace board for a wedding or group trip then quietly looking up the product because they want one for their own events. In that moment the board itself is doing all the convincing before they ever reach your homepage.
I'm curious if you've already seen anyone sign up after receiving a shared board instead of finding Countspace directly.
I think the biggest insight in your post is that you changed what you were optimizing.
You started by improving the homepage, but the product's real acquisition channel may be the shared board itself. If that's true, every shared board isn't just user content—it's the first experience future users have with the product.