WeCofounder

8 days until my Product Hunt launch. Here's what I'm second-guessing:

Am I posting too much content?

• Published 2 long guides this week

• Posting on Twitter 5-8x daily

• Active on Reddit, LinkedIn, IH

• Feels like I'm everywhere but maybe spreading too thin?

Should I be building features instead?

• Spent more time writing articles than coding this week

• Users are asking for features

• But what's the point if nobody knows the product exists?

Is anyone actually reading this stuff?

• Getting views, but are they quality?

• Lots of "that's cool" comments, few signups

• Maybe I should focus on a smaller, more targeted audience?

Am I launching too soon on PH?

• Product works, but it's not perfect

• Some features are half-baked

• But everyone says ship early... right?

The classic first-time founder dilemma: no idea if I'm doing this right.

What would you do differently? Be honest.

Spent the last month testing AI cofounder tools after struggling to find a technical partner. Built a guide comparing what actually works vs marketing hype.

Covered validation tools, dev assistants, and marketing AI. Most cost $20-100/month vs $5k+ for consultants.

lmk what you think. Spoiler alert: AI will help, but won't replace actual human connections. Also, Claude alone can get you 90% of the way.

https://wecofounder.com/articles/ai-cofounder-guide

This is a graph showing the percentage of users that got to my signup page, and then actually created an account.

On average, my conversion rate jumped from just under 20% to over 60% overnight. So what changed?

I only did 2 things:

1. I simplified the signup form.

   Originally, users had to fill out name, email, password, and confirm password. But I already had a working password reset flow, so I removed the confirmation field and replaced the password input with a show/hide toggle. Fewer fields = fewer drop-offs.

2. I added Google, GitHub, and Microsoft SSO.

   And this was the game-changer. Today, almost nobody uses the manual signup form. Nearly everyone clicks an SSO button instead.

Why you need to add SSO:

• Trust: Seeing Microsoft or Google makes the site feel more legitimate.

• Speed: No new password to remember. No typing. Literally just clicking 2-3 buttons.

• Convenience: It just works, especially on mobile.

• Verification: Most likely, you will get higher quality leads as you are getting the email from an account linked with SSO.

Did you see a big jump when you added SSO?

And if you haven't yet, please add it. It makes it so much easier for me to try out :)

Building my first SaaS. Real users are in, feedback is flowing, and I’m shipping fixes daily while tuning SEO.

Product Hunt, though, feels like deep water. Everyone says you need a launch squad, early up‑votes, and a top‑tier hunter. It makes me think the product must be flawless before showtime.

How do you decide when it’s time to hit “launch”?

It may not be much for others, but to me this is huge. You see that little bump to the right? That is my first organic visitor, and they actually ended up signing up. I have spent exactly $0 on any ads or promotions.

(Ignore the stuff before 09.04.2025, that was me testing).

I have spent a lot of time trying to improve my seo, and I can finally see some results. It seems that a few weeks ago my website actually starts showing up in Google searches. And I have finally gotten a user from it.

This is a huge milestone for me, so I just wanted to celebrate :D

Pricing seems to be quite a hard thing to determine to me. One thing is what I think the product is worth, another is what people would actually pay for it. It seems to not always correspond.

I currently have Free, Pro($29/month), and Enterprise($99/month).

While it seems that people are looking, I am not sure I have hit the nail on the head, in terms of what people are actually willing to pay.

How do you deal with this issue?

Hitting 10 users might not seem like much, but for me, it’s a huge milestone. I launched WeCofounder.com to help early-stage founders validate and improve their startup ideas using AI. Something I have struggled with myself.

And about 2 weeks later, I have gotten my first 10 real users. Without paying for any of it.

So how? 3 things:

• I focused a lot on optimizing my pages for SEO. I don't think this has brought many, if any, users yet. However, I think it will play an important role moving forward, as I want to get organic traffic.

• Community engagement. I spent a lot of time on Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn, and indiehackers. Depending on the platform, people were either very encouraging, or told me that they could build my platform from scratch in a day vibe coding with Claude. I got quite a bit of constructive feedback this way, and I also think this is where most of the users came from. For me, I think LinkedIn and Reddit got me the most users.

• Made a "hook". Something that was very easy to use (no signup, and on the homepage). This was quite a simple tool, used to create some engagement and draw people in. Basically just a gamefied OpenAI wrapper. If people liked what they saw, some created an account to use my actual product. I think a key component of a hook is that it needs to be fast, easy to use, and have very low overhead. A prompt costs close to nothing nowadays, so it is fine if only 1/100 of the people create an account.

How did you approach getting your first users?