A note from the founder
Manoj Kandlikar
Founder · YourNextUser
If you're reading this, you probably know the feeling. You shipped something real. You know it works. You just can't get anyone to try it.
I spent seven years building a trading app — backtested across 799,000 signals, three thousand symbols, every market condition you can name. The product was solid. The users weren't there.
I tried everything founders try. Reddit posts that got me shadowbanned. Cold DMs that went nowhere. Paid ads that burned $800 before I stopped. None of it worked because all of it was interruption — showing up uninvited, hoping someone cared.
What finally worked was embarrassingly simple: showing up in threads where traders were already asking about the exact thing I'd built. One helpful reply, my product mentioned once at the end. Those threads found me my first hundred users.
But finding those threads took two hours every day. So I automated it.
The full story in 60 seconds
The one habit that actually works
Every day, thousands of people post in forums asking for exactly what you built. They're on Reddit asking “what tool do you use for X?” On Hacker News asking “how do you solve Y?” On LinkedIn complaining about Z.
These aren't cold leads. They're warm signals — people with the problem, actively looking for the solution, right now.
Show up in those threads with a genuinely helpful reply. Mention your product once, naturally, when it's actually relevant. That's it. That's the loop that built organic growth for my first product. And every founder I've talked to who found their first users without ads did some version of the same thing.
What YourNextUser does
Finding those threads manually took me two hours a day. YourNextUser runs that search for you — every day, across nine platforms — and brings back only the conversations that match what you built.
- →Scans Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, Product Hunt, Bluesky, YouTube, and TikTok daily
- →Finds threads where people are already asking about your problem — not just keywords, intent
- →Drafts a reply that sounds like you wrote it: helpful first, product second
- →You read it, edit if needed, hit Post. Done.
Who this is for
YourNextUser is for founders who have something real and can't get anyone to find it. Not startups with growth teams. Not companies running paid acquisition.
It's for the person who built the thing themselves, knows it solves a real problem, and is trying to find their first ten, fifty, or hundred paying users without burning their runway on ads or cold outreach that doesn't convert.
If that's you — this was built for you. Because it was built by you.
First catches usually land within 24 hours of setup.
No credit card. No growth team needed.
Find my first users →Have a question? Reply to any email from us — it goes directly to me.