{"slug": "i-built-a-tool-to-automate-growth-but-crickets-advice", "title": "I built a tool to automate growth, but crickets. Advice?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "I spent years working on data infra. I got tired of the manual grunt work, so I built [CreatiVault](https://app.creativault.ai/growth/home) to automate my benchmarking and influencer tracking.\n\nIt 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:\n\nIs my product actually useful, or am I just solving a problem only I have?\n\nHow do you get the first 100 people to actually sign up and test it?\n\nI’m looking for a gut check—do I need to fix the product, or am I just looking in the wrong places?🙏", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-tool-to-automate-growth-but-crickets-advice", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/ninacreativault/i-built-a-tool-to-automate-growth-but-crickets-advice-ki7", "published_at": "2026-06-24 03:55:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 04:13:37.082986+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["CreatiVault"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-tool-to-automate-growth-but-crickets-advice", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-tool-to-automate-growth-but-crickets-advice.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-tool-to-automate-growth-but-crickets-advice.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-built-a-tool-to-automate-growth-but-crickets-advice.jsonld"}}