Working towards launching my app. It's too early for meaningful data, growth trends, or any real signal on what's working, and I'm okay with that.
What I've noticed though is that the internet is full of milestone posts. First 100 users, $10k MRR, viral launches. And when you're pre-data, it's easy to accidentally use someone else's month 18 as your week 1 benchmark.
I'm not losing sleep over it, but it did get me thinking about how founders define meaningful progress before the numbers are there to tell the story.
My current approach is staying focused on qualitative signals are the right people finding it, are early users actually engaging, are conversations happening. But I'm curious what others have done:
great indication on where they see the biggest opportunities right now. Here is the latest list: 1. AI for Low-Pesticide Agriculture 2. AI-Native Service Companies 3. AI Personalized Medicine 4. Company Brain 5. Counter-Swarm Defense 6. Dynamic Software Interfaces 7. Electronics in Space 8. Hardware Supply Chain 9. Industrial Capabilities in Space 10. Inference Chips for Agent Workflows 11. SaaS Challengers 12. Software for Agents 13. Startups That Want to Sell to Huge Companies 14. Supply Chain 2.0 for Semiconductors 15. The AI Operating System for Companies details here: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs
