I'm Stephane, CEO of Umamy. I am starting all over again after 10 years of running a previous Retail Marketing startup (Demooz). I exited Demooz in 2025 with some time (and money... some, not rich yet ahah) ahead.
Wish me luck, I guess? Sleep deprived, exhauseted :) Launching FitOut, a counter to CAD, so anyone can beutifully reimgine and render their spaces in the browser.
Powered by some heavy fuel recently emerged AI models we host that give a general atchitecture to make this possible. Anyone can now builf any interior scene with any furniture products they want. To scale. Thought I'd post as im potentially looking for a technical co-founder to collapse inference response time and challenge / simplify the backend architecture....and challenge on anything else. (Hardcore & committed would be ideal)
There are tons of stories about founders launching SaaS products without an existing audience. No Twitter following, no newsletter, no community, nothing. Yet some still manage to get early traction and even hit real MRR.
If you have started from zero, I would love to hear:
How you got your first users
What channels brought the earliest traction
Whether cold outreach works or not
If content played a role or if you focused mainly on building
What you would do differently if you had to start again
