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Re:Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience? on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:36AM (#47835861)
"attention inflation" is the right name for it. The skills for building and the skills for getting attention are almost completely disjoint :), and you usually can't optimize both at once.

Just looked at zymi-core. Event-sourced + auditable is the right shape for an agent engine. replay and audit are what make autonomous behavior actually debuggable. and "asks before anything destructive" reads like someone who's lived with the consequences of autonomy.

*Heading offline for military training next week, back early June. will clone it then and come back with real feedback, not a drive-by star!

Re:Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience? on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:32PM (#47812418)
right? I guess, I couldn't tell my problem exactly. My question was not about strategies, it's about how to build a group/audience from scratch. Paying for ads just nonsense in my opinion.

Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?

Posted by arikusi on Thursday April 16, 2026 @06:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Solo developer, no audience, no network, no community presence.I've shipped working products (open-source) but every distribution channel has a cold start problem. you need traction to get traction. Even posting about your work requires reputation you can only build by posting. For those who built something with no existing audience to launch to: what specifically worked to get your first real...

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