User Acquisition Strategy for a Serverless P2P File-Sharing Tool
An indie builder created a serverless, peer-to-peer file-sharing and real-time chat tool to avoid cloud storage limits, mandatory registration, and privacy overhead, and asks other indie/micro-SaaS builders how they approach initial user acquisition without a large marketing budget. This is a growth-strategy discussion rather than a reported user pain.
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