u/Reasonable-Shine-452

It seems almost impossible to contribute without mentally ill people thinking you are AI. So I will say it anyway but Ai can still write that 🤦🏾‍♂️.

There has been a massive influx of AI apps and this same thing happened during the crypto app influx.

Stripe goes out of its way to flag your application and remove you from the site.. literally happened to me not once but twice and the second time they hold your money.

once again I am a Founder that posts about real issues that I solved. I get $0 money from this, no affiliate links no nothing. For all of the weird redditors who think mentioning a solution to a real problem is somehow you make money..like dude that's super annoying because people like myself that have real experience of failures and how I overcame it.

most vibe coding apps do not make money. that's the data. I don't care what StarterStory says or whatever YouTuber that launched 48 hours ago and makes 100k MRR says. I am just saying before you put to much energy in what your building figure out how you will process payments.

FYI - Most Solutions will not be free like Stripe unfortunately ...For me I found Whop and it literally started processing payments immediately.

That's all folks- if this truly helped show some love with upvoter but sometimes some many people are drowning they don't want those trying to not drown to get the info that actually solves a problem. ✌🏾

I spent the last 6 hours posting on Reddit. Long form Posts trying to share my journey of how I went form basically 30 users (over 6 months) to Plus 1000 in over the last week. I was met with downvotes, accusations of being AI, lying, and just removing my posts.

I really would like to know how do Entrepreneurs use Reddit. I literally have some sauce to help but the people in the groups just have a weird disdain. Now I am at the point of, giving up on helping people on Reddit. I literally have a family of 5 to take care of. I literally think Reddit is a great community but its almost like you wasting your time it seems like sometimes.

I realized many Aspiring Entrepreneurs on Reddit do not want actual help. They want to complain and make it seem like you had some advantage over them to justify them not reaching yuor level. The reality in my opinion seems that they just do not want to do the real work.

I mentioned earlier that I get 10 Users a day doing, In-Person Pitches and got downvoted and accused of being AI. This has gotten Nuts!

KapitalGPT is an AI WealthTech Software. We Turn Financial Intelligence into Interactive Video Games. We provide Independent Investors and Exam Takers with the Platform they need to Achieve Financial Mastery (Asset Management, Credit Repair, Options Trading, Real Estate Investing). 

First let me bless the Room! I missed the newest YCombinator applications for the deadline that just hit. I knew I wasnt ready but next year Here we come or whenever the next Cohort Opens Up.

I am 39 and listen this is real talk. I am a Serial business owner since I have been 20 years old. I have had mini successes and failure. I know what its like to raise 100s of thousands, have a business valued in the millions (409A Valuation), Go Broke after all of that, be Self Employed, and have job trying to run a business.

I have basically seen so many different phases of self employment and startup life.

The absolute first thing I have to say is "I JUST DIDNT QUIT"!

Obviously I know this is not my first 100k Users or 1 Million Users or even 10k Users but I am proud of the Users that I do have and Its my First 1000. I am a very Intelligent Data Scientist and I just couldnt get people to engage with my Application. I kept getting the same feedback.

With this being said this is How I Got my First 1000 Users:

-Direct Email People

-In Person Sign Ups (This is very underrated) Pitch your application to people and business in person will force you to make improvements because they will challenge you and ask questions.

In Person Networking really helped me get multiple Signups in a day. Sign ups are different than users. Sign Ups are basically people that create an account. Users are people that actually use your platform. This is actually how you start gathering and collecting data. Signups is a good start but Users are actually more important.

I decided not to require Website visitors to sign up or pay before using your App. This may work for some people because if someone wants it bad enough they will pay or create an account but in my situation. I just identified my product market fit.

-Enter Pitch Competitions (Its plenty of free ones and paid ones, enter as many of these as possible to define your pitch)

-Utilize Boardy AI to find New Clients and Social Media Influencers (It actually works)

-Create a Target Customer Profile (before you spend money on any ads - I made this mistake) Its a waste of money to just create ads. First Identify who will be using your product. Let those people give you direct Feedback. Forget what your Sister or girlfriend said (unless they are your target customers)

-Post Value (literally what I am doing now and the REDDIT Gods will Bless you) My years of posting on Reddit and being banned sometimes for literally no reason finally let a post go through and it has been a learning process since then!

I have sent messages to plenty of people I thought were my friends who didnt even message me back. When they have some good news thats all they want to talk about. Having a Good NetWork is essential to breaking through and gaining traction with your Startup.

Lets be Clear I am not pretending like 1000 is a lot of users but i promise you when I had 12, 19, 30...It was brutal so I know there is a real process to scale from 100 to 1000. Hopefully I was able to provide value to those that are getting little to no traction