Technical Founders Have Strong Products but No Distribution or Visibility
The primary failure mode for indie and technical founders is not product quality but lack of visibility and distribution strategy. As AI drastically lowers the cost of building, the bottleneck shifts entirely to audience development and go-to-market execution. Most founders have no repeatable process for getting early users.
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Visibility
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