Show IH: I thought building Mindfold was the hard part. Getting the first users is way harder.

I posted about launching Mindfold, my AI-powered learning app, and admitted I had basically no idea how to get my first users.

That post gave me some good advice:

Stop chasing traffic. Find 10 people who actually have the problem and watch what they do.

So that's what I'm trying next.

Mindfold is built around a simple problem: I constantly find things I want to learn — articles, videos, topics, random rabbit holes — save them somewhere, and then... never come back to them.

The idea is to turn that messy pile of “I'll learn this later” into an actual learning journey.

You can give Mindfold a topic, URL, or document and use AI to turn it into structured learning material, quizzes, notes, and progress tracking.

But here's the uncomfortable part:

I built all of that before knowing whether enough people actually wanted it.

Classic builder mistake.

So instead of adding another feature, I'm going to spend the next phase doing something much less exciting:

Find 10 real learners
Watch how they use it
Find where they get confused
Find what makes them come back
Fix that
Repeat

I'm especially interested in students, self-learners, and people who constantly save educational content but rarely finish it.

If that's you, I'd genuinely love to hear:

What's the biggest reason you don't finish the things you want to learn?

Is it lack of time? Forgetting about it? Too much information? Losing motivation? Not knowing what to learn next?

I'm trying to figure out whether Mindfold is actually solving that problem — or whether I've just built something I personally wanted.

https://mindfold.fyi/

I'll share what I find, including the ugly parts.