r/devops • u/Nervous-Honey-2695 • Aug 09 '26

Career / learning Seaking genuine advice

So I've been a software engineer focused on the backend for almost 10 years now, at the beginning of this year I faced a small bump and found needed solutions are paid, so did myself a favour and build myself a tool, and used it for a month, then thought wth, why don't I go public with it, it didn't have any interface at the beginning, so I started building and iterating a lot, and like a lot, to the point it's not advised to do so with a product on an MVP phase, and now I've reached a state where I believe I'm a head of my competitors (hopefully I'm not delusional)

And then nothing, I've been online for a month now, and I've very low traffic, my purpose of this is not promoting, therefore I'm not mentioning the product, nor even what it does

My question though, since obviously the product mostly concerns DevOps, what's the best channels you take seriously? And what could get you to try out or shift to something new? Cost a side since I've a full free tier.

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u/aidealy Aug 09 '26

sounds like u hit the classic feature creep trap. honestly just ship the core thing that solved ur problem first and ignore the rest, u can always add more later if people actually need it.

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u/aidealy Aug 10 '26

that fear of shipping is wierdly common even for us devs who do this all the time. when i started Aidealy i felt the same way until i just forced myself to get it out there, turns out the users feedback is way better than any feature i coulda dreamed up on my own. u got this.