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Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?

2•arikusi•1h ago
Solo developer, no audience, no network, no community presence.I've shipped working products (open-source) but every distribution channel has a cold start problem. you need traction to get traction. Even posting about your work requires reputation you can only build by posting. For those who built something with no existing audience to launch to: what specifically worked to get your first real users? Less interested in theory, more in "I did X and it actually moved the needle."

Justice Dept. Appealing Surveillance Court Ruling Amid Congressional Impasse

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/politics/fisa-ruling-appeal.html
1•Cider9986•2m ago•0 comments

Relaxation of US day-trading rules opens door to YOLO trading, higher risk

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/relaxation-us-day-trading-rules-opens-door-yolo-trading-...
1•petethomas•2m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Moves Up Vesting Schedule for Employee Shares Before IPO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/spacex-moves-up-vesting-schedule-for-employee-...
1•petethomas•4m ago•0 comments

Zig 0.16.0: I/O as an Interface

https://ziglang.org/download/0.16.0/release-notes.html#IO-as-an-Interface
1•bpierre•7m ago•0 comments

France reports over 40 cryptocurrency kidnappings so far this year

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2026/04/16/france-reports-over-40-cryptocurr...
1•geox•8m ago•0 comments

Wii Homebrew Channel – WiiBrew

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel
1•evo_9•9m ago•0 comments

Brave Origin

https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38561489788173-What-is-Brave-Origin
1•nreece•9m ago•1 comments

Administration Planning to Blow Off FISA Court's Ordered Section 702 Fixes

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/15/administration-apparently-planning-to-blow-off-fisa-courts-or...
1•Cider9986•12m ago•0 comments

Connect maker devices to Claude Code and Cowork

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-desktop-buddy
1•felixrieseberg•13m ago•0 comments

Comfy.Guide

https://comfy.guide/
3•jethronethro•14m ago•0 comments

QSOlog – Offline-first PWA logbook for amateur radio operators

https://nuetzliches.github.io/qso-log/
1•nutz-bob•26m ago•0 comments

I Hate AI

6•jwpapi•29m ago•4 comments

100M commits to GitHub without using Git push

https://github.com/Wuerfelhusten/commitment
1•Wuerfelhusten•33m ago•1 comments

A type of bike theft in San Francisco

https://shub.club/writings/2026/april/a-type-of-bike-theft/
3•forthwall•42m ago•0 comments

Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyrd818gd2o
11•flykespice•42m ago•0 comments

Breaking from Your Parents [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhpF9jC3a18
1•Aerbil313•43m ago•0 comments

I automated my local barbershop's chaos with code

https://ravoor.com/ar
5•megoxv•45m ago•0 comments

Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-3d-printing
3•iamnothere•46m ago•0 comments

Unwritten – 3-minute AI short film, Top at Soulscape 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzdvt-qOysI
1•gltanaka•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VCoding – A 5 MB native Windows IDE with no dynamic dependencies

1•Tonyjw2002•51m ago•0 comments

Planning and Monitoring Indoor Vertical Green Living Walls with Remote Sensing

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/ina/5782002
2•PaulHoule•52m ago•0 comments

George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/how-george-orwell-predicted-the-rise-of-ai-slop.html
17•doener•54m ago•7 comments

Show HN: LLMs don't hallucinate because they're bad at math, it's the format

https://github.com/yvonboulianne/laeka-rational
2•yvonboulianne•55m ago•0 comments

Ne, the Nice Editor

https://github.com/vigna/ne
2•Lyngbakr•55m ago•0 comments

Everything we like is a psyop

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/everything-we-like-is-a-psyop/
6•evo_9•56m ago•0 comments

North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/north_korea_social_engineering_macos/
2•Bender•56m ago•0 comments

Google Chrome lacks fingerprinting protection

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/google_chrome_lacks_browser_fingerprinting/
3•Bender•57m ago•2 comments

QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/quic_explained/
3•Bender•58m ago•0 comments

Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis/
3•apollinaire•1h ago•0 comments

The Book News Isn't All Bad

https://reactormag.com/the-book-news-isnt-all-bad/
2•samclemens•1h ago•0 comments