Jett Levenson

I've taught guitar for years. The kids who stick with it aren't the ones who learn theory first they're the ones who get handed a song they already love in week one. Every app in my category does the opposite. Scales, levels, streaks, a progress bar. Very good at making you feel like you're learning. Not very good at making you play a song. So I'm building the opposite: no lessons, no levels, no streaks. Upload a song, get the chords, play it. Genuinely open to being wrong about this. Anyone here learned an instrument properly through structured lessons and think I'm underrating them?

Posted a 7-slide carousel over the weekend. Decent reach for an account with almost no followers 88% of it from strangers. Then I found the number that actually mattered: average slides viewed was 2.2 out of 7. I'd spent a full day building slides 5, 6 and 7. Almost nobody saw them. Views told me the hook worked. Depth told me everything after it didn't. I'd have made exactly the same mistake again if I'd only looked at the first number. What's the metric you nearly missed that changed how you build?

Mine today: put the audio track of a carousel post as one of the items inside the carousel, rather than picking a generic background song. If you hear a song and want to know which one it is, you swipe until you find it. Costs nothing, takes no extra work, and it turns passive audio into a reason to keep going. I'm a solo founder with basically no audience, so most of what I can do has to be free. Which turns out to be a decent constraint it forces you to find the mechanics rather than buy reach. What's yours? Small change, real difference.