Struggling to Find My First Audience—Where Did You Start?
I’m at that stage where I need to validate my idea, but finding and talking to the right audience feels like the hardest part. For those of you who’ve been through this, where did you find your first engaged users? What worked for you in getting those initial conversations going? I’d love to hear what channels helped you the most.
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The validation paradox is real—you need an audience to validate, but don't know where to find them until you validate. One thing that helped me was flipping it: instead of looking for "my audience," I started hanging out where people complained about problems in my space. Reddit threads, niche Discord servers, even comment sections. You hear the actual pain points in their words. If you're still trying to figure out if there's real demand before investing time, verdiccio SaaS can run that check across multiple sources pretty quickly—saves you from building in a vacuum.
Was helpful , gonna try it , and nice strategy to introduce your product as well , I'll check that out too
first audience usually isn't a channel — it's a place where people already describe the problem in their own words.
what worked for me: pick 2–3 communities, hunt by pain phrases (not product category), reply 1:1 helpful before any pitch.
what's your product in one line, and have you tried any community outreach yet or mostly waiting on content/SEO?
I'm trying to engage with the audience on reddit , facebook , write comments reply to them etc
reddit + facebook comments is the right motion — harder part is usually picking which threads are real buying moments vs polite discussion.
what's your product in one line, and which 2–3 subreddits (or FB groups) are you spending most time in right now?
if useful i can pull a small free sample of Reddit threads that match your ICP pain language (score + why) — only if you're actually replying there this week.