Russell

I recently saw someone with 10k+ followers launch and still finish 6th. That hit different.

Now I'm launching Torziva on March 8th.

I built an AI virtual try-on tool for online fashion stores customers upload their photo and instantly see how clothes look on them. Fewer returns, more confident buyers.

I'm not a marketer. No big following. Just a solo founder who believes this solves a real problem.

What I've done so far:

Built Torziva from scratch solo

Set up Coming Soon page on Product Hunt

Started sharing in communities for early feedback

What I'm nervous about:

No big audience or marketing budget

First time launching anything publicly

Don't know if the right people will show up

If you've launched before, I'd love to know:

Did you reach out to strangers or only your network?

How did you get your first real user after PH launch?

Trying to go in prepared, not just hopeful

https://www.torziva.site

tldr: yes. Shoutouts are one of the simplest distribution levers on Product Hunt.

Shoutouts are meant to pay it forward and highlight the tools that helped you build. But beyond goodwill, they create durable distribution for your product on Product Hunt and across LLM driven discovery.

When you shout out a product during launch, it becomes a founder review on that product s page. Founder reviews sit above regular reviews and include a link to both your profile and your product. That means your product is now attached to every future visit to that product s review page, long after launch day. For example, check out @timliao s shoutout of @Framer or @guymanzur s shoutout of @Base44

Before AI, I always thought I would NEVER learn how to code. I genuinely admired technical people, watching them code felt like watching magic. I remember wishing that maybe one day, I could do something like that too.

I ve never had any formal education in programming, and I had zero experience building apps. But with AI, I was able to start from just an idea and slowly figure things out on my own experimenting, setting things up, and eventually creating my first interface that I could actually interact with.

It honestly felt magical. It made me realize how fast the world is changing. Coding is no longer something completely out of reach. AI is making it possible for people like me to turn ideas in our heads into real, tangible drafts for the first time.