“I posted this thread on how I built Gravl… I shared kind of the technical specs around it. It got over a couple hundred likes within the first couple hours and over 300,000 impressions. Yeah, we got our first couple thousand users.”

A single Reddit build-story thread can net 300K impressions and your first thousand users

The first thousands of users came from a single Reddit thread describing how the app was built, aimed at developers who happened to also lift. Sharing the technical build story (not a sales pitch) earned 300K impressions and the feedback loop that confirmed product-market fit.