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Founder Retrospective on a Customer-Discovery Tool With No Paying Users

A founder built a tool to surface where potential first customers are asking questions online, generating 48 signups but zero paying customers when pointed at their own product. The post is a build retrospective rather than a description of a specific user problem.

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