28 days. Zero users. I need honest founder feedback before I waste another month.
I'm a BCA graduate from India. Been building in public for 28 days.
Here's the honest situation:
Got shadowbanned on Reddit trying to reach users. Got rate limited and banned on Twitter the same week. Spent days commenting genuinely — all invisible.
Indie Hackers is the only place that's actually worked for me. So I'm here, being straight with you.
I've been building NotionAudit — an AI tool that scans your Notion workspace and tells you exactly what's cluttered, unused, and slowing you down. Landing page is live. Zero signups from strangers.
But lately I keep coming back to a different pain. One I felt myself, every single day this month:
I validated an idea. Then had absolutely no idea what to do next.
What order to post. Which platforms to use first. How to build Reddit karma without getting banned. When to build vs when to talk to users. I was guessing every single day and paying for every wrong guess.
So the question I'm sitting with: is there a real product in "AI co-pilot that gives solo founders a personalized, step-by-step execution roadmap after they've validated their idea"?
Not another course. Not a checklist blog post. An actual tool that knows your budget, your experience level, your niche — and tells you exactly what to do this week, in what order, with warnings before you make the mistakes I made.
I felt this pain myself. But I'm one person.
Honest question to anyone who's been here: does this resonate? Is this something you would have paid for on day 1?
And if you think I'm wrong about the idea — tell me that too. I'd rather know now than after another month of zero users.
28 days with zero users usually isn't a product problem — it's a distribution one. Most of us can build the thing; getting the first eyeballs is the actual job, and it's brutal solo. Honest question: where have you actually shown it? If it's mostly your own channels (a new account, a small list), that's the issue — the leverage is going where your users already hang out and being genuinely useful there first. Happy to take a look if you drop the link.
This hit close to home. I'm in the same spot — built four browser-based tools, launched on Product Hunt last week, still at zero sales. Reddit got me shadowbanned twice.
On your actual question: I'd be cautious about the execution roadmap idea, not because the pain isn't real (it absolutely is) but because you'd be selling to the same broke, tool-fatigued audience you're already struggling to reach. marc_kumiko123 is right about that.
What helped me reframe it: I stopped trying to sell to founders and aimed at people with a specific, recurring task — invoices, seating charts, event stationery. Boring problems, but people actually pay to solve them.
Curious whether NotionAudit could go the same direction — Notion consultants or agencies who audit client workspaces professionally might be a tighter, paying audience than solo founders cleaning up their own mess.
(My tools are at https://dewinterronald.gumroad.com/ if you want to see what "boring but functional" looks like in practice)
The problem makes sense to me, but “AI co-pilot” feels a bit broad. If I was stuck at that stage, I don’t think I’d want a full roadmap right away - I’d probably want one clear next move for this week, plus the reason why that comes before everything else.
Otherwise it’s easy to end up with another plan that sounds good, but doesn’t really change what you do next.
Are you thinking of starting with one specific type of founder first?
honest, since you asked: the problem is the audience, not the concept. solo founders / indie hackers are the hardest first market there is — broke, tool-fatigued, and mostly selling to each other. the "execution roadmap co-pilot" is crowded on top of that, and (gently) selling founder-execution advice with zero users of your own is a credibility gap buyers feel instantly. NotionAudit's real issue: it's a vitamin, not a painkiller — cluttered Notion annoys people but doesn't cost them money, so no signups, and it's one-and-done anyway. the valuable thing here is that you can ship AI tools fast. point that at a boring vertical that has budget and a narrow, expensive problem — ideally a domain you already know — instead of at other founders. that's the whole gap between 0 signups and paying customers.
I'm pretty much in the same stage. One thing I've been realizing is that I kept looking for certainty before talking to more people. The uncomfortable part is that certainty probably comes from those conversations, not before them.
I think the more interesting signal here isn’t the execution roadmap idea—it’s the emotional state right after validation. Most founders assume the hard part is proving demand, but what you’re describing is the gap between “this solves a problem” and “I now need to become a distribution system.” That’s where most first-time builders quietly get stuck, not at idea validation.