... launched Invoice Badger here last week. Single digit upvotes, zero signups. Nobody was rude about it, nobody was anything about it, which is worse. Writing this up because the post mortems I've found useful were always the honest ones, and there are plenty of the other kind. What I got wrong I launched to nobody. I made this account and launched days later. No audience, no comment history, no reason for a single person to care that ...

... from Piero De Tomi(@pierodetomi): @busmark_w_nika totally agree! Working on it right now Comment from Dale Mooney(@dalemooney): Your opening is the part I'd underline, because I'm the person you're describing. I launched Invoice Badger here last week having barely told anyone I was building it. Single digit upvotes, zero signups. The product had months in it. The distribution had about a day. So my contribution is mostly the other kind: what didn't work ... ... actually happens when sensitive data gets pasted into a chatbot) instead of just listing features ourselves. One thing I'm curious about: for the pre-launch phase, how did you decide which communities were actually worth showing up in vs