u/Daniel_SES

Founder here.

About 50 days ago I started posting consistently on X while building in public.

At first there wasn’t even a product. I was mostly experimenting with posts, replying to people, sharing what I was learning, and trying to understand how growth on X actually works.

Eventually it started compounding and I grew to around 3k followers in those 50 days.

About halfway through, people started asking how I was writing posts, finding ideas, staying consistent, etc. That’s when I realized there might actually be demand for a tool around the workflow itself.

So I built ClimbX(.)so to make the process more streamlined and repeatable.

The interesting part is that building in public basically became the entire distribution strategy.

In the first week after launch:

• 59 signups
• 22 users started the 7-day free trial
  • card required upfront
• No MRR, yet

Still early, so now I’m mostly watching retention and seeing whether users actually stick around long term.

Biggest lesson so far:
building an audience before fully building the product made validation way easier than previous projects where I built first and tried finding users later.

Curious if other founders here have had a similar experience with audience-first products.

Founder here.

About 50 days ago I started posting consistently on X while building in public.

At first there wasn’t even a product. I was mostly experimenting with posts, replying to people, sharing what I was learning, and trying to understand how growth on X actually works.

Eventually it started compounding and I grew to around 3k followers in those 50 days.

About halfway through, people started asking how I was writing posts, finding ideas, staying consistent, etc. That’s when I realized there might actually be demand for a tool around the workflow itself.

So I built ClimbX(.)so to make the process more streamlined and repeatable.

The interesting part is that building in public basically became the entire distribution strategy.

In the first week after launch:

• 59 signups
• 22 users started the 7-day free trial
  • card required upfront
• No MRR, yet

Still early, so now I’m mostly watching retention and seeing whether users actually stick around long term.

Biggest lesson so far:
building an audience before fully building the product made validation way easier than previous projects where I built first and tried finding users later.

Curious if other founders here have had a similar experience with audience-first products.

Founder here.

About 50 days ago I started posting consistently on X while building in public.

At first there wasn’t even a product. I was mostly experimenting with posts, replying to people, sharing what I was learning, and trying to understand how growth on X actually works.

Eventually it started compounding and I grew to around 3k followers in those 50 days.

About halfway through, people started asking how I was writing posts, finding ideas, staying consistent, etc. That’s when I realized there might actually be demand for a tool around the workflow itself.

So I built ClimbX(.)so to make the process more streamlined and repeatable.

The interesting part is that building in public basically became the entire distribution strategy.

In the first week after launch:

• 59 signups
• 22 users started the 7-day free trial
  • card required upfront
• No MRR, yet

Still early, so now I’m mostly watching retention and seeing whether users actually stick around long term.

Biggest lesson so far:
building an audience before fully building the product made validation way easier than previous projects where I built first and tried finding users later.

Curious if other founders here have had a similar experience with audience-first products.