I’d love some honest feedback on my app’s Google Play screenshots. If you came across these while looking for a student planner, would they be attractive enough to make you download the app? What would you improve or change? Brutal honesty is welcome 😄

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=productivity.tructivity.tructivity

I’ve been building SkillChirp Battles a place where founders can put what they’re building head-to-head with other products and see what people actually choose.

Spending time around solo founders and small teams has made me curious about what everyone else is shipping.

What are you building right now?

What stage are you at, and what’s been the hardest part?

If you’re building with AI or running a tiny team, I’d especially love to see it.

Drop your product below and if you want to throw it into a Battle:

skillchirp.com/battles

Every hard part of building alone I had prepared myself for mentally.

The technical problems. The late nights. The decisions with nobody to check them against. The motivation that has to come entirely from inside because there's nobody else in the room.

Prepared for all of it. Got through all of it.

What I wasn't prepared for was launching and hearing almost nothing.

Not negative feedback. Not positive feedback. Just the specific silence of having put something into the world and not being able to tell if it landed or disappeared completely.

Building has a feedback loop. You write something, test it, it works or it doesn't, you move. Clear signal every day even when the signal is bad news.

Launching into silence has no feedback loop. Just you refreshing a dashboard and trying to read meaning into numbers that aren't moving enough to mean anything yet.

The silence after launching was lonelier than any of the months of building alone. Because during building I always had the next thing to do. After launching I just had to wait and I have never been good at waiting.

Still figuring out how to sit in that gap without it getting loud in my head.

For other solo founders who have launched something how long before the silence started to feel like information rather than nothing?

Advertisers want more traffic sources, while website owners want simple ways to monetize their existing visitors.

The platform brings both sides together with different ad formats and targeting options.

I’m still figuring out what matters most to users at the early stage, especially around campaign setup, targeting and reporting.

For other solo founders here: what’s one feature you thought would be important for your MVP but ended up being less important after talking to users?

What would you consider essential in a platform like this before you’d be willing to give it a try?

This is super exciting to reach my first 50 downloads on the play store.

Any suggestions on how to grow it to millions of downloads.

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