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Looking for 'founding users' on our social content tool

I was trying to grow a consumer app from scratch on social and kept hitting the same wall: consistency + “what to post.” So we built ShowStop to detect trends as they’re emerging and convert them into ready-to-use briefs in a content board. Looking for founding users.

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Ideas and Validation
on January 23, 2026
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    For consumer apps, I’d make the founding-user ask way narrower than “anyone trying to post more.” Pick 2 or 3 niches where social is clearly tied to acquisition, like fitness coaches, app founders, Etsy sellers, then offer to build their first 10 briefs manually from their actual account. The feedback will be way better than generic signups because you’ll see where the trend-to-post workflow breaks.

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