Sequo is done, guys. 0 paying customers. Since August: ~1,000 visits, 7 signups, 0 payments. Product Hunt day added 36 visits and 0 signups. What I got wrong: I built the whole thing first and only then went looking for people who would pay for it. The next idea goes the other way: competitors, target profile, talk to them, try to pre-sell, and only then a small MVP. The competitor analysis is almost done. I'll keep sharing everything as I go. Have you ever shut down a product? And what was the sign you should have seen earlier?

6 AI and startup events in Poznań in the next 10 days. I recently realized that, in order to grow, I need to communicate more in person with people who are better than me at something. So I started looking, and my city turned out to be way more active than I thought. So I wonder: do only “vibe coders” show up to events like these, or are there actual experts there?

1000 cold DMs or 10 warm conversations? I used to think you had to pick one. Then I sent 17 cold DMs and almost half of them replied. I didn’t pitch anything. I just asked about their own experience and tried to really understand how they work. Maybe cold vs warm is the wrong question. What makes you answer a cold DM?

3 months of waiting for customers brought 7 signups, 0 payments, and 0 feedback. 1 week of DMing people myself: 8 real conversations. By talking to people about my next idea, I realized that people don't need a tool just for finding followers. They need to find leads, customers and users, not followers who just like or comment. So if I hadn't spent a week on it, I would have built the tool and tried to sell it again for 3 months. Honestly, I had these thoughts a few times. How do you actually find your clients? I’d love to hear what works for you beyond replying under posts.

Everyone says Claude Code burns through limits and Codex lasts all day. In my test it was the other way around. Same feature, same codebase, $20 plan each. Codex spent about half its run fixing its own environment: Docker, the database, migrations, a 503 from its own auth container. Nine approvals in, it hit the limit with the feature unfinished. It finished 3.5 hours later. One test isn’t the final word. But I’d stop picking an agent based on what Reddit says about limits. Which one actually lasts longer for you?

I spent 1 week instead of 3 months to validate the idea Instead of building an MVP and trying to sell for 3 months, like with Sequo, I checked competitors, DMed people, and analyzed the market. And 7 of the 17 people I DMed told me that they have their own solutions and never thought about paying for this. But all of them mentioned the same: leads, customers, paying users. They don't have problems with gaining subs. They need to find customers and reach out to them effectively. That’s a big signal. Now I want to check if more people need this. Would you need an app that helps you to find customers?

I asked Claude and ChatGPT to visualize each other's users, and here's what came out... Never thought that jokes from AI could be so subtle. Who tells the better jokes?

5 different people told me what works best on X All of them told me “get-to-know-you” posts are the most effective ones. Yeah, just simple («hi, this is me», photo, intro, follower growth). What’s even more interesting is that 4 of 5 people said they have no idea why it works... My guess is that people can tell you’re a real person and not just another AI, and that’s why they’re drawn to you. After all, we’re all so tired of this artificial content. And it worked for me. Yesterday I crossed 500 followers and wanted to share the joy with my audience. The post got 1K views, 39 likes and 28 replies, brought 11 followers directly and 27 in total over the day. Almost double my follower count in views. I’m sure there are more people out there who share their theories. Which formats worked best for you?

500 followers in 3 hours on X That’s what you get when you quit Anthropic and post once. For me it took 3 months. I tried at least 20 strategies for posting, replying, and engaging with people and realized you have to bring value to people, the value that they can use in their lives. For example, I posted an article: "I gave the same task to Cursor, Codex and Claude Code and wrote up what happened". 4.9K views with ~430 followers. The posts where you promise something or just announce won’t work. People feel when a post has nothing real in it. My weakest one (138 views) was where I promised numbers and didn’t give any. A good exercise is asking yourself before posting: “Would I share this post with someone?” or “Would I save this?” I’m sure it’s just the beginning and there’s lots of cool stuff ahead. Let’s grow together, guys, and finally touch the sky hehe. How long did it take you to reach your first 100, 500, and so on followers?

I'm gonna DM at least 30 people before building my product. I know many founders skip this step. I skipped it with my first product, drowned in guessing who my audience was and what problem I was solving, and ended up with zero paying users. So this time I want to understand their problems and the challenges they face as they grow on X before I write a line of code. If you've messaged users before building, did it actually show you what problems they face?

Growth X tools are not actually growing your X account!!! SuperX, Tweet Hunter and Typefully give you an AI writer, post scheduling and auto-posting, two of them also give you an inspiration feed. But how does that help you grow your account? It doesn't. They just automate your own strategy. But most people on X barely know what to post, let alone have a strategy. I haven't seen tools that grow your mindset, your understanding of the X feed, and train your skill to spot trends. I'm going to keep growing, guys, and I won't stop at 500 followers, 1k or even 100k. But to get there I need one place with the tools you actually need to understand X, not to automate it. I will build it and share it with you. Would you like to use this app?

Every study on AI coding productivity says something different, so everyone just quotes the one they agree with. Here are all of them. METR: experienced devs were 19% slower on their own codebases. They predicted 24% faster beforehand, and still believed they'd been 20% faster afterwards. Stanford, 100,000+ devs: 7 to 9% gain. Enterprise Copilot study: 26% more tasks completed, juniors gained 21 to 40%. Anthropic RCT, 52 professional devs: comprehension scores 17% lower for the AI group. SonarSource: 41% more bugs under heavy AI use. 84% of developers use these tools. 29% trust the output. The honest reading is that nobody knows yet, and the loudest number in your feed was picked because it agreed with the person posting it.

The Inspiration feeds of SuperX and Tweet Hunter aren't really inspiring and here's why: The feed of Tweet Hunter shows posts 1-2-3 weeks old. The feed of SuperX simply provides general popular posts and a search feature that you can use to find posts in your niche yourself. It means that you'll either always be behind the trends or you have to know exactly what to search to be inspired. Do you find inspiration in popular posts, and do you see value in what modern social media platforms offer?

I'm now researching competitors to build a tool. The current one is SuperX, and it's crazy powerful in its area. It analyzes your character and profile way more so your replies and posts sound like you. But what I already notice 2 of the competitors I've checked are focused on automation, not on your growth. So instead of growing your account, they give you the tools that you have to use on your own and honestly, without knowledge and the right setup, you will just spend $50 and cancel a month later. Does anybody really stick to these tools more than a month?

Sequo is on Product Hunt today. 803 visits, 6 signups, zero payments since August. This is the last push before I decide whether to keep going. An upvote helps, but what I actually want is for you to open it and tell me where it loses you. producthunt.com/products/seq…