I connected everything you asked me to connect. I post here regularly. I comment on other people's threads like it's my part time job. I've upvoted, supported, replied, shown up on days i had nothing to say.

And still, 3 verification requests later, i'm sitting here unverified like a guest at my own party.

At this point i'm starting to run theories.
Maybe i'm too active and it looks suspicious. Maybe my account is being held to a secret standard nobody told me about.

Or maybe i'm actually a robot and nobody had the heart to tell me .

Hey Product Hunt,

I just launched the closed beta of CoLaunchly for waitlisted users. It s a marketing co-pilot for indie devs that creates personalized launch plans, content templates, and channel strategies based on your app and target audience.

Now that it s out in the wild, I m realizing how hard it is to actually get feedback from early users. Even the ones who signed up seem quiet.

I look at my GitHub profile and sometimes wonder if I'm doing this wrong

Here's what I currently maintain, solo:

• WP Bones a Laravel-like framework for WordPress plugins. PHP, Composer, Blade templates. 169 stars, v2.0.3, active since 2018.

• 20+ Mantine UI Extensions React components for Mantine: Parallax (Apple TV card effect), Split Pane, Window (draggable/resizable), Rings Progress (Apple Watch style), QR Code, Onboarding Tour, and more. TypeScript, published on npm.

• FinderGit a native macOS app that turns Finder into a Git-aware file browser. SwiftUI, no Electron, with inline diffs, Git actions, and AI commit messages. Free, in public beta.

• octoscope a terminal dashboard for GitHub. Go + BubbleTea, with 7 themes (including a CRT phosphor mode), single binary via Homebrew.

Four languages. Four ecosystems. Four very different user bases. One person.

When you're running a small project, every single user feels precious so saying no to a request feels like you're actively pushing them away. I remember keeping a user waiting for ages on a custom integration because I didn't want to admit I wasn't going to build it.

They eventually stopped replying and moved to another tool. Once I started giving fast, blunt answers even when it meant losing someone my workflow got so much cleaner.

Do you try to please every early user or do you draw a hard line early on?

Someone cancelled last year. No drama, no complaint. Just gone.

They came back eight months later. I asked why they left and why they returned. The answer was the same thing both times. They needed something I did not have, then they did not need it anymore, then they needed it again.

I had a spreadsheet with every customer, every payment, every conversation. It was messy and manual and I complained about it constantly.

Then I moved everything to a proper tool. It took three weeks. And I lost something I did not expect.

I built something that worked perfectly. Fast, reliable, handled every case.

It also fell apart the moment two people used it at the same time. A race condition I had never hit because I was always the only person testing it.