Hey everyone,
I’ve been working on Flouie, a calm space for people who overthink and have racing minds.
Instead of staring at a blank page, you just write down small moments and thoughts as they happen, and the app connects your patterns over time.
I’ve looked at my landing page too many times, so I can no longer see what is confusing or bad about it.
I need fresh eyes to tell me the truth:
First 5 seconds: When you open the page, is it immediately clear what the product actually does?
Copy & Tone: Does the text feel relatable, or does it sound too vague?
Friction: Is there anything on the page that makes you want to close the tab immediately?
Design / Flow: Does the page look clean, or is it too busy?
Please don't hold back. Tell me what needs to be fixed.
Link: https://flouie.vercel.app
Thanks a lot for your time!
That exhaustion you feel- having to re-explain your emotions and backstory over and over is the exact reason we built this.
OpenAI isn't trying to be your personal journal, they're optimizing a general assistant for real-time conversation. When a chat session ends or the context window fills up, your life gets archived into a flat graveyard of text.
Our app is built fundamentally differently:
It’s not a chatbox: There’s no back-and-forth conversation where your history gets buried.
Longitudinal memory: Every entry you write is linked to your personal timeline. It remembers what happened 3 weeks or 6 months ago.
Pattern recognition over generic advice: Instead of giving cliché therapy advice, it surfaces things.
I can relate to this. I’m building Algolassi and I’ve also found that building the product is much easier than getting people to discover it.
One thing I’m starting to believe is that the first 50–100 users probably shouldn’t be treated as a “traffic” problem. They’re more of a distribution + feedback problem.
For an early product, I’d personally try a few things at the same time:
Find places where your exact audience already talks about the problem. For Flouie, that might be communities around overthinking, journaling, productivity, self-improvement, etc., rather than startup communities.
Make content around very specific problems people search for. Instead of only promoting Flouie, create useful pages/posts around things like “how to stop overthinking at night” or “how to untangle racing thoughts.” SEO can take longer, but it compounds.
Personally reach out to a small number of people and ask for feedback rather than asking them to “try my SaaS.” Getting 10 people to genuinely use something and tell you what they dislike can be more valuable than 1,000 random visitors.
Keep experimenting with distribution. Reddit, X, Indie Hackers, SEO, communities, directories, etc. can all behave completely differently depending on the product.
I’m still figuring this out myself, so I definitely don’t have the magic answer . But I’d focus less on “How do I get traffic?” and more on “Where do people who have this exact problem already hang out?”
Also, $1.5K/mo for a first SaaS is already a pretty interesting signal. You clearly have something people will pay for — now it’s mostly a matter of finding more of them.
Good luck!
It's so easy to obsess over analytics and traffic numbers early on instead of just having real conversations with a handful of people who have the actual problem.
Curious, how are you approaching this for Algolassi right now? Are you mostly doing direct outreach, or leaning into content/SEO first?
yeah, now that you mentioned it i also see it's a bit too much cluttered, on it right now. thanks for your feedback!
Micro-journaling for overthinkers is a great angle, but messaging in the mental health space is tricky. Happy to look at your hero section, copy clarity, and conversion flow to see where visitors might be bouncing.