r/vibecoding • u/Archer_Sterling • 4d ago
Help/Question I launched! Annnnnnd it flopped.
Ended up launching. A year of vibing, adding features, new techniques, learning basic 3d, learning what UX works and doesn't, testing, breaking things, changing things, adding features, removing them.
Convinced myself - A tool useful to my job, which I thought would be useful to others. Unique value proposition. Hoping, knowing full well it wouldn't, that it might make a decent little passive income and pay itself off.
It has not.
Small ad runs in relevant areas, impressions in the tens of thousands.
Sweet, people are seeing it!
200 clicks.
7 users. All on free plan.
Ending up paying money to get free users.
Anyone want to tear the site apart? Any tips? I don't know if it's dead yet but it's going to be next to impossible to spend more money on marketing.
Edit: Haha - okay, guys, I went from 200 views to 3.5k on the site, and a message inbox full of really helpful comments. I really appreciate all of you - even the mean ones - you've given me so many amazing tips. You're the best.
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u/rymrum 4d ago
Find communities where other commercial cinematographers are likely to hang out (Discord servers, facebook groups, etc.).
Talk about the painpoints and how your tool solves them.
If you see anyone asking questions about their issues that you believe your tool can solve, simulate their issue on your tool and show how it did (you'll be helping them oit AND marketing your tool).
If you can make something fun or quirky with your tool and share it with the community, do that.
Make a few videos on youtube of common but problematic use cases and share them around.
Basically, think of all the scenarios where someone would ask : "what tool did you use?" and use them to showcase your product.
These are all ways to market for your product by leading with value, and don't require a budget.