Solo founder. Waitlist worked, Launch worked, growth stalled. What should I do?
I’m a solo founder, built an app that uses AI to match people for real life activities: coffee Meetup, tennis partner, padel, or just explore the city. AI turns your desires to structured intent, and match you with someone nearby who wants the same thing and has similar interests. No profiles, no swiping.
Before building I made a waitlist, and after reaching out in Facebook communities got 200 signups.
Then I shipped the app for iOS and Android, overall now I have 115 users, I see some very low activity.
I understand that without large user base this app doesn’t make any sense, people simply have no one to be matched with. I decided to target one city specifically to increase density.
Now my growth stuck. I don’t know what to and how to bring more users and engagements into the app. I tried some collaborations with local instagram accounts, tik tok, but it was just waste of money.
Have you ever face similar situation, what did you do to fix it, any advice would be appreciated 🙏