“you only need two or three people because imagine you were in a coffee shop and you started to read your writing aloud and two people next to you were like hey I'm really interested in this could you tell me more”

You only need 2-3 readers to launch

Stop waiting to launch until you have a big audience. Two or three engaged readers asking follow-up questions is enough to spin the feedback loop. Publish your real ideas to whoever is there, answer their next question in your next piece, and the algorithm will compound that signal into more of the same readers over time.