A friend sends you an app that might solve one small problem. You open it and the first screen asks you to create an account before you can see what it does. Some apps need an account to save work or sync; for a quick evaluation, that s a real ask.
As someone building Inquir Compute, I m curious about that first step. The difference may be whether you reach a useful moment before sharing an email, or whether signing up is itself part of getting value.
A couple of years ago, sharing revenue numbers and progress updates on X felt like a cheat code. Now my feed is full of Day 47 of building my SaaS posts, and I m not sure anyone is reading them anymore, including me.
I ve been posting updates, and it s brought honest result, e.g. some founder friends, but very few actual customers.
Has building in public brought you real customers, or mostly other builders?
If you still do it, what kind of posts actually get traction for you?
