... because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles. Which opens the question: Which approach brings more advantages in your opinion? Comment from Christopher D'Andrea(@dandrea8): I actually took the opposite route and built first without much audience at all. One thing I realized is that building without an audience

... Ever looked out at a room full of people and thought... "Is anyone even listening?" We built Amphioo because we were tired of one-way events. No engagement. No feedback. Just slides and silence. Amphioo is a live audience engagement platform. One link. No downloads. No app installs. Just scan a QR and your entire audience

... Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane. I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor

... found errors. Average cost: 28k." 120k impressions, 400+ new signups. Free resource: Post as a human. Share what you're learning in real time. People don't follow companies. They follow people. 5. Multi-Language: The Hidden Channel Most competitors track AI in English only. We built for 120+ languages from day one. Why: A German user asks in German. AI answers in German. If you're not in German content, you don't exist. One example: A US SaaS ... ... with perfect German translation had zero German AI mentions. A local competitor

... been thinking a lot about audience monetization lately, especially for founders and indie makers. Many of us slowly build small but valuable audiences

... Guys I m building Audient a simple webapp that helps creators and businesses understand who their ideal audience

... TubeBuddy Team, YouTube-Certified Optimization Platform | December 2025 | Creator Tools & Video Marketing After helping over 15 million creators optimize their channels since 2014, we've distilled our most effective approach into this comprehensive framework. Based on our Audience Understanding methodology and validated by YouTube's official creator guidelines , this guide provides everything you need to transform your channel from guesswork into predictable science. Why Most YouTube Growth Strategies Fail Pew Research Center's social media study reveals that ... ... content creators struggle to build sustainable audiences

... tweak, and suddenly you re proud of this shiny thing that (hopefully) works. Then comes the harder question: Who is this actually for? You might be tempted to say: Everyone! Anyone! People who breathe oxygen! But if your audience is everyone, your message doesn't reach anyone. The more you try to appeal to as many people as possible, the more you lose touch with your real target, who would gladly pay for what you sell. All founders feel ... ... same way: You re too close to your product, and while you're convinced you're seeing the bigger picture, you're actually not. Narrowing your audience

... into a spreadsheet Hack together filters, VLOOKUPs, and manual enrichment Pray the upload to LinkedIn/Meta/Google actually matches And when performance tanks, everyone blames creative, copy, or this channel doesn t work anymore. The unspoken assumption has been: To fix audiences, you need a full CDP, GTM engineers, and a big ops team. So smaller teams either: Try to duct-tape it in spreadsheets, or Give up and run broad, lazy targeting. But the deeper I went, the more obvious ... ... became: The bottleneck isn t data access . It s the missing workspace between CSV campaign. Right now, if you want a great audience

... well Comment from Daniil Poletaev(@danshipit): I was using Twitter for a very long time, but now I am also trying to start growing LinkedIn as well. Also IndieHackers and Product Hunt is a nice platform to grow audience ;) Comment from Tetiana(@tetianai): @marc_vuit  could you please suggest some tips? For now, I find it difficult Comment from Tetiana(@tetianai): @charlene_zh1  What does it mean: KOL campaign? :) Comment from Sai Tharun Kakirala(@sai_tharun_kakirala ... ... still works but the ROI has dropped noticeably. The channels I've seen work best recently are niche communities - Product Hunt forums, specific Discord servers, and even Reddit. The key difference is that community channels compound slower but the audience

... podcast script, complete with segmented content blocks, intro/outro music cues, and host dialogue. 4. Editor Agent: Acts as the refinement layer. It meticulously reviews the draft for clarity, conciseness, tone, and flow, ensuring the script is optimized for an audio format. It even suggests improvements like better audience

... After that I was at TikTok (where creators = the product - without them, the algo has nothing to match). So I think about creators a lot! Even more now with @Meet-Ting as we try to find, build and get audience to stick. Here are a few ways I think about creators outside of pure transactions, maybe useful to reframe how you work with them too: Founding creators At Ting we identified a handful of creators (top LinkedIn voices, 'KOLs ... ... into it: you can also consider creator calls as R&D for storytelling. When you re early-stage, talking to creators about your product is fascinating - because they immediately think about how to tell the story to their audience

... This story is published in the Product Hunt Weekly Newsletter. If you'd like to read more stories like this, subscribe here . Three tactics you can use to reach your audience drawn by building @Square brand from beta to IPO, finding stories in deep tech at Facebook, and advising 3,000+ YC startups In 2010, I became the first comms hire at Square. We went public five years later. In 2018, I helped @Facebook reach and recruit a global engineering ... ... audience

... like the script has flipped: People are building in public from day 1 Products go viral before they even exist Investors care about your followers almost as much as your traction And here s the thing: I ve noticed that audience-first founders are raising faster, getting more beta testers, and recruiting easier, even when their product is half-baked. But I think there s a danger: sometimes I see the community grows faster than the product matures ... ... with hype that s impossible to live up to. So my question is, if you had to choose: Would you focus on building an audience

... After 2 years of hard work, it's time to face reality. My project to streamline the process of audiobook creation in a few days instead of weeks hasn't worked. Was it a bad idea to create alternatives

... This is probably one of the most debated topics in the startup world: Should you build an audience before you launch, or is it better to launch first and grow your audience

... there is a giant gap between getting likes & getting paid. YouTube & X give you decent cash if you have 100k+ but what have you found as someone with 10k, 5k or 1k? IMHO: 1) Start a newsletter (for your audience) I know, I know we are swamped with them. But they are still high ROI. With 5k followers you can prob do $500 a month just on Beehiv ads. If you are creative you can sell custom ads for more ... ... Sell a PDF (for your audience

... makers! I'd love to hear about your experience with the audience-led approach and what are the best practices that you've discovered? Did you build an audience