... rewarded product posting, Forg would become a place where builders spam their products at each other with nobody actually paying attention. A promotional feed with a professional skin on top. That is not a professional network. That is a bulletin board. So the feed algorithm changed. Genuine content gets priority. Tech insights, honest learnings, opinions about building, things that are actually useful or interesting to other builders. This is what rises in the feed. Product updates and launch posts have ...

... market you're trying to reach with it, you could consider the website "sign up if you want to learn more when it launches" idea and going to local businesses in your area to see if they have bulletin boards where you could post a one-pager with a QR code for people to sign up, as well. Super old school, but better than investing in a set of interviews. I've also tried Reddit searches and scrapes of posts ... ... find pain points that my offering would address, versus

... cool and new). Comment from Angelina Shevchuk(@angelinashv): Depends on the product but private communities barely work if you (as well as many others) use them for promoting purposes only. Sometimes such groups give the vibe of an old bulletin board that no one cares about :( Generally, I agree that there ups and downs in any social media promotion and the trick is to proceed creating qualitative content not expecting high results. Because if you stop posting while having ...