u/AtefehSalahshoor

Life moves fast, and it feels like most of us carry around five or six goals at once and make real progress on none of them.
If you had to drop everything else and commit to just one, which would you choose?
Would you learn a language, change careers, get in shape, start a side business, finish a degree, or go after something most people around you wouldn't understand?
I'm not looking for the goal that sounds most impressive. I'm interested in the one that would actually change your daily life if you pulled it off, and that you could realistically fit around work and everything else.

There's an awkward stage where the product finally works well enough to show people and at the same time you have no audience to show it to. You spent months on the build because that's the part you're good at, and now the default is posting a link somewhere and refreshing analytics.

Paid ads only solve part of it, because clicks aren't users, and you still need to learn who actually sticks around and why before the budget runs out. I'd much rather find the first 50 people one by one and talk to each of them than buy 5,000 visits I learn nothing from.

For context, I'm building a goal-planning app (you give it a goal, it gives you a step-by-step plan that fits your week), so it's B2C with no obvious niche community to start in.

So for founders who got through this stage with a consumer product, where did your first real users come from, and what did you stop doing because it was a waste of time?