Technical Founders Build AI Products With No User Acquisition Plan
Solo technical founders spend months building AI-powered products then discover they have no distribution strategy on launch day. The gap is not product quality but the absence of go-to-market planning as a parallel workstream to development. Growing as AI makes building cheaper and the bottleneck shifts entirely to distribution.
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