Shivam Kushwaha

You don t need thousands of followers to start getting customers

But finding the first few people who are willing to try your product can still be difficult

You can post content, reach out directly, join communities, or ask people in your network

The challenge is figuring out which approach reaches people who actually need what you re building

I ve worked on a small side project on and off for about eight months. Some weeks I m excited about it, and other weeks I wonder if I m just refusing to let it go because of the time I ve already put in.

Last month I set a simple rule: if I couldn t get even five people to try it, I d stop. I managed to get three, and two of them gave me useful feedback. I m still not sure if that means I should keep going or if I m just reading a weak signal as a good one.

It made me wonder if don t quit too early and don t hold on too long are both true, and how anyone knows which one applies.

How do you decide when a project deserves more time? Have you ever quit something and later regretted it, or kept going and wished you had stopped sooner?

Dragging a dead project along for months just because you've already put so much time into it is a terrible feeling. I've been there you know deep down after month two that the idea has no traction but you keep writing code every night just to avoid admitting it failed.

Deleting that repository hits hard because it feels like throwing away all those late nights.

Looking back what was the exact sign that made you finally kill your project instead of pushing through?