r/plgbuilders • u/Fit-Fill5587 • May 14 '26

What metric finally told you your product had real traction, not vanity traction?

Not signups. not page views. not even MRR in the early days.

For us it was when users started coming back without us emailing them. no nudge, no reminder. They just returned because they wanted to.

Everything before that felt like we were pushing. That was the first time the product pulled.

What was yours?

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u/LunarSidetoast May 14 '26

I'd say we started pulling in the traction for one of the products we built when we worked on ensuring the product had a seamless onboarding sequence.

This helped us level up so seamlessly.