Beyond social posts: finding early traction

Transitioning from head-down feature dev to actually pulling in real users is always a brutal reality check. You put together a decent product but suddenly standing out feels like screaming into a void.

Standard tricks like churning out daily tweets or blasting cold newsletters don't seem to yield much ROI these days.

Most folks just scroll right past aggressive ads anyway.

For anyone who managed to break past those initial zero user hurdles recently: where did your most reliable traffic actually come from? Did organic community discussions do the heavy lifting, or did you find success elsewhere?