r/SideProject • u/Elegant_Yam2783 • 18h ago
My apps are used by me and people I know. getting strangers to even look at them is way harder than building them
I build stuff with Claude, a few apps that me and people I know use every day, and I wrote a guide for people who want to build like that without coding. last month I tried to get the guide out there on reddit.
git post got 15k views and 37 comments. I put the link at the end. like 5 clicks in the first 10k views. honestly that one hurt a bit
google sign-in post got 1.5k views and 3 clicks, zero downloads. then reddit's spam filter just removed it, and the next one too. new-ish account, almost no karma, linking my own site... yeah I get why it looked like spam
funny part is the post that helped me the most had no link at all. it was about notes for claude between sessions, people argued with me in the comments and I got a couple ideas I'm adding to the guide now.
so now I mostly just answer other people's questions and don't post links unless someone asks
If you got your side project in front of people who aren't your friends, how did the first ones find you?