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I built a tool to automate growth, but crickets. Advice?

A developer built CreatiVault, a tool to automate benchmarking and influencer tracking, but is struggling to attract users. The developer seeks advice on whether the product solves a real problem or just a personal one, and how to get the first 100 signups.

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I built a tool to automate growth, but crickets. Advice?
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I spent years working on data infra. I got tired of the manual grunt work, so I built CreatiVault to automate my benchmarking and influencer tracking.

It does the job perfectly for me, but I’m struggling to get anyone else to try it.I’m a dev, not a marketer. So I have to ask:

Is my product actually useful, or am I just solving a problem only I have?

How do you get the first 100 people to actually sign up and test it?

I’m looking for a gut check—do I need to fix the product, or am I just looking in the wrong places?🙏

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