Free Web Tools Have No Durable Traffic Channel Beyond Manual Reddit Posting
An indie builder of a free recommendation tool found that nearly all traffic came from manually posting on Reddit, and traffic dropped to zero as soon as posting stopped. This highlights a broader problem for solo makers: tools with strong on-site conversion still lack any repeatable acquisition channel independent of the founder's manual promotion.
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