Where did your first 10 users actually come from?

I'm Shun, the maker of Ownfeed.

We launched here today, and I want to use this thread to learn from you, not to pitch.

Here's the pattern I kept running into with my own projects: I

'd build something, post the launch, and nobody would come. The only thing that reliably worked was finding people who were already describing my problem on Reddit or X, and replying to them in my own words. Not a DM, not a pitch. Just an honest answer with "I built something for this" at the end.

That's why Ownfeed is a feed instead of an alert inbox or an auto-reply bot. You paste your URL, it reads Reddit, X, Bluesky and Hacker News, and keeps only the posts where your product actually helps. You still write every reply yourself.

What I'd love to hear from other makers:

1. Where did your first 10 users actually come from? Not where you tried, but where they came from.

2. If you reply to strangers' posts, what makes a reply land instead of getting ignored or removed?

3. Is there a community (a subreddit, a Discord, a forum) that was unexpectedly good for you?

I'll share what I see in our own data as it comes in, and I'll answer every reply here.

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