Day 7: First comments on my posts. Still 0 users. Here's what's actually moving.
A week in. Zero paying users.
But something shifted this week that feels different from just waiting.
People are responding. Not to my product — to the problems I'm talking about. Founders in the same trench, working through the same diagnostic questions: why do people land and leave? what's the difference between curiosity and intent? how do you tell if your product works before the money proves it?
I don't have answers yet. But I'm in the right conversations.
What actually happened this week:
Launched on Product Hunt (Day 5)
Left real comments on 10+ threads where I had something to say
Got replies that turned into actual exchanges
Scheduled my first Reddit post in r/vinyl for this week
The gap I keep bumping into: the people who need FindAlert most aren't in founder communities. They're in collector subreddits, refreshing eBay at 2am, not reading Indie Hackers.
That's where I'm going next.
If you hunt rare items across borders — records, cameras, watches, cards — I'd genuinely love to know how you currently track listings.
→ https://findalert.app
This feels like the right shift.
The problem may not be “no one cares” — it may be that founder communities are giving you diagnostic conversation, while the actual product truth lives inside collector behavior.
IH can tell you how founders think about the problem. But r/vinyl and similar spaces will tell you whether the pain is real enough to change how people track rare items.
That seems like the layer that matters now: not more startup feedback, but contact with the actual hunting behavior.
Interesting observation about your audience not being in founder communities. Have you considered creating search-focused pages around specific collector niches like vinyl, watches, cameras, or trading cards? Those users are already actively searching for rare items, so search traffic might be a good complement to community outreach.
The problem is real, but I think the product may be stronger than the current name makes it feel.
FindAlert clearly explains the first use case, but it also frames the product like a simple notification utility. What you’re really circling is more valuable: helping collectors spot rare items across messy marketplaces before they disappear. That is closer to discovery intelligence than just alerts.
This matters before you push harder into Reddit and SEO, because those users will remember the first frame you give them. If the name feels generic, people may treat it like another alert tool instead of something built around serious collecting behavior.
A name like Beryxa.com would give the product a stronger shell if you expand into saved searches, rarity signals, cross-border discovery, marketplace monitoring, or buyer workflows. It would make the product feel broader and more ownable without changing what you already built.
I’d pressure-test that now, before more users, posts, and search pages start locking FindAlert into the “basic alert app” category.