Built an app for a real problem… now worried no one will ever use it
I’ve been working on a family coordination app for a while now, mainly because my wife and I were constantly getting tangled up in who was doing school drop-offs, pick-ups, activities, etc. We both work full-time with pretty unpredictable hours, and the usual mix of calendars/WhatsApp just wasn’t cutting it.
The main thing we needed was a really clear way to see who could and couldn’t do things each week - especially school runs - without loads of back and forth. Everything else kind of grew from there.
I’m at the point where it actually works really well for us, and we use it daily… but now I’ve hit that slightly uncomfortable phase of “what if no one else cares?”
I don’t have an audience, I’m not a developer by background, and I’ve got no real experience launching or promoting something like this. It feels like I could easily just chuck it on the App Store and hear absolutely nothing back.
I’ve only just come across this sub and it already feels like somewhere I probably should’ve been lurking months ago.
For those of you who’ve built apps before - how did you actually get your first real users? Not downloads, but people who genuinely use it and give feedback. And how do you avoid just building in a vacuum?