How would you grow a desktop app in a saturated market?

Hello everyone, Petr from @GetCompress is here!

It's almost a week since it won the Top 2 🥈, thank you all for support 🫶

Featuring on Product Hunt 😼 (and especially winning!) helps a lot: traffic, public validation and feedback, search boost, and word of mouth: I was surprised how many sales would come from a niche repost in a Facebook group (not even in English)

Many design- and creator-oriented websites and newsletters posted about my app on their main pages (including those with 100,000s of followers!)

I'm already getting organic traffic, including from AI chats (thanks ChatGPT for 100% conversion from visit to purchase).

Reddit is also great here: if you post somewhere on Twitter without having a large audience, you are mostly just talking with the wall, but if you find a relevant active subreddit (which is always possible), your post gets 10,000s of views for free, and helps with validation and initial sales too 🤖

When I started working on this project, I've seen so many competition here, which is good because there's demand, but which makes it tough for you to reach your target users.

My next focus would be finding more launch directories (to gain visibility and boost search) and focus more on SEO and GEO.

What would you do better? Am I missing something? Number 1 priority coming forward, what should it be?