i spent a year on an app because i'm 28 with student loans and can't afford real marketing
i've had shopify stores since 2010 and always hit that no-traffic wall. google ads want 50-1000 a day, which isn't happening with my student loans and rent, so i kept ending months in the red. i ended up building leadsfromurl, where you paste your product url and it finds people on reddit actually looking for what you offer, so you just go talk to them. it's for broke founders like me who just need a shot.