Hello Bangalore,
What are you building nowadays? Let's share it so that we can collaborate and grow together.
I will go first. I'm building https://runbyte.tech/ for finding high intent lead on reddit.
I’m a software engineer, and I just learned a lesson that I probably should have known: Early traction is a gift, not a guarantee.
Seven months ago, I launched a project (let’s call it Zed). Within two months, I hit 180 users. For a side project, I was pumped. But then I hit a wall. I couldn't figure out how to scale my Reddit marketing further, and I got bored.
I thought, "If I can get 180 users for this, imagine what I could do with a 'truly brilliant' idea."
So, I did the unthinkable. I stopped working on the project that actually had people using it. I pivoted to a tool for Product Managers. I spent two months building it, convinced it was a "big brain" move.
The result? Total silence.
Two months in, and I have exactly zero users. No traction, no feedback, just me staring at a clean database and realizing I’d abandoned a spark to go look for a fire elsewhere.
I realized that 180 users wasn't a "small start". It was Product-Market Fit screaming at me, and I ignored it because I thought the grass was greener.
I’ve spent the last few weeks swallowing my pride. I’ve brought on a stronger technical team, and we’ve spent that time rebuilding and rebranding the original concept (the one people actually wanted). We’re calling it RunByte
The Lesson: If you get early traction: keep going. Don’t be like me. Don't kill a winning horse because you think you found a faster one that hasn't even started running yet.
Has anyone else here abandoned a "small success" only to realize later how rare that success actually was? I’d love to hear I’m not the only one who has done this.
I’m a software engineer, and I just learned a lesson that I probably should have known: Early traction is a gift, not a guarantee.
Seven months ago, I launched a project (let’s call it Zed). Within two months, I hit 180 users. For a side project, I was pumped. But then I hit a wall. I couldn't figure out how to scale my Reddit marketing further, and I got bored.
I thought, "If I can get 180 users for this, imagine what I could do with a 'truly brilliant' idea."
So, I did the unthinkable. I stopped working on the project that actually had people using it. I pivoted to a tool for Product Managers. I spent two months building it, convinced it was a "big brain" move.
The result? Total silence.
Two months in, and I have exactly zero users. No traction, no feedback, just me staring at a clean database and realizing I’d abandoned a spark to go look for a fire elsewhere.
I realized that 180 users wasn't a "small start". It was Product-Market Fit screaming at me, and I ignored it because I thought the grass was greener.
I’ve spent the last few weeks swallowing my pride. I’ve brought on a stronger technical team, and we’ve spent that time rebuilding and rebranding the original concept (the one people actually wanted). We’re calling it RunByte
The Lesson: If you get early traction: keep going. Don’t be like me. Don't kill a winning horse because you think you found a faster one that hasn't even started running yet.
Has anyone else here abandoned a "small success" only to realize later how rare that success actually was? I’d love to hear I’m not the only one who has done this.
About 7 months ago, I built a small product called Reddit Relevance.
It reached ~180 users in the first 2 months. Nothing huge, but it was the first time something I built actually got real users without aggressive pushing.
And then I made what I now think was a classic mistake.
I convinced myself: “This is good, but I can build something bigger and better.”
So I paused it and started working on a new idea: Spectr. On paper, it felt more scalable, more impressive, more like a “real startup.”
I spent the next 2 months building it.
It got almost no users.
No traction. No pull. Just silence.
That’s when it hit me: I had walked away from the only real signal I had.
Early traction is easy to underestimate because it looks small. But it’s one of the hardest things to get.
I ignored it because I was chasing something that felt like a better idea.
Now I’m going back to Reddit Relevance, with a stronger team and a much more focused mindset.
The difference this time is simple: I’m not chasing ideas anymore. I’m following signals.
Curious how others here think about this:
At what point do you double down on something with early traction vs. moving on?
I have been trying a bunch of AI tools for PM work over the last few weeks.
They are all impressive, but I keep running into the same issue: they don’t really fit into how I actually work day to day (Jira, Slack, docs, random notes, etc.).
So I end up going back to using Claude/ChatGPT in an ad-hoc way instead of relying on any one tool.
It made me wonder if the real opportunity is not “AI PM tools,” but just solving one small but annoying workflow really well.
For example:
Are you actually using any AI tools regularly in your PM workflow, or mostly sticking to ad-hoc usage?
And if you are using something consistently, what made it stick?
I keep seeing more AI products marketed to product managers: for PRDs, research synthesis, roadmap support, user feedback analysis, prioritization, and so on.
But in day-to-day conversations, it still feels like a lot of PMs are not really using these tools in a meaningful way. Some try them once and move on. Some use ChatGPT for small tasks, but not much beyond that.
I am curious about the real blocker here.
Is it trust?
Output quality?
Lack of time to experiment?
Bad fit with existing workflows?
Or does AI still not save enough time to be worth the switch?
Would love to hear from PMs here:
What is your current view on AI tools for product management, and what is stopping you from using them more?