Mariia Volina

There's a stat that keeps haunting me: 61% of young adults report feeling seriously lonely. Not occasionally seriously.

I know this number isn't abstract. When I started building Murror (an AI companion app for young people battling isolation), I was living it. Working from a tiny apartment, going days without a real conversation, completely absorbed in a product designed to solve the very problem I was drowning in. The irony wasn't lost on me.

If you could do only one thing to maximise the chance of winning your launch - what would it be?

One of the most useful pieces of advice I recently heard was this:

The real battle is in the first few hours.
If you can land in the top 3 when the votes become public, the visibility carries you for the rest of the day.

Because most visitors simply upvote the products they see first.

Genuine question for makers here - what s actually worked for you to get useful feedback fast?

• live demos?

• onboarding calls?

• shipping daily + letting users yell at you?

• communities like PH?