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Ask HN: 150+ signups, 0 paid ones – should I move on or keep building?

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Re: Ask HN: 150+ signups, 0 paid ones – should I move on or keep building?

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Post by hammadn »

akerl_ wrote: post #9
hammadn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run a STEM page on LinkedIn & X. I have to post something STEM-related daily on them for which I search Google News for an article, open it, copy its content, and then ask ChatGPT to write an engaging LinkedIn post or Tweet for me out of it. So I made a tool to make this task a bit simpler. I used conntent to generate my weekly newsletter yesterday. You can read it here: https://stemble.substack.com/p/indian-astron…

This just sounds like blogspam to me. Why not just share the link and let it speak for itself, if you're not actually putting any original thought into what you're saying about it? But going back to the question in your post, I suspect the reason you aren't getting paying customers is that people/companies who are reposting content across social media already have established patterns to do it and there's not a value…

Right. This could be a reason! What do you think I should do?

Re: Ask HN: 150+ signups, 0 paid ones – should I move on or keep building?

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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

Fail fast is good advice but not if you don't understand why you failed. Try to get information from your current users on why they aren't willing to pay for your service. Cycle on that and update your product to get a better understanding of what you need to produce as a product that people are willing to pay for. If you can learn from every effort then you can eventually get a winning product.

Also, understand that a product is not a business. A business is the supporting organization that produces the product. Get that going before you move on to something else.

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