Divyanth Jayaraj

I've in fact built and deployed 6 apps. No revenue of course but I've done it all myself; with my own money. Total would have been under $1000.
Am I considered a "founder"?

I've spent exactly all of last year building a total of 6 products, 4 of which are paid.
But I haven't gotten a single paying customer yet.
Channels I've tried.

• Posting on Hacker News and Product Hunt

• Paid ads (Google, Instagram, Reddit)

• Listing on tool directories ("ThereIsAnAIForThat.com" etc)

• Creating Free tools and sending some related traffic back

• Asking a couple of people I know to try my products

Each have given me various degrees of success. Rest assured, I have lots of users using the free parts.
Recently I'm trying push marketing; for example recently my girlfriend and I went to a pet-friendly cafe in Bangalore and we got talking with the proprietors. One of them was interested in what I was building and I found myself pitching my product them.
I felt icky and weird since all my life I've been a software engineer and hardly ever someone who sold anything.
What's your experience getting customers, especially the first ones for your product?

Hey folks, I recently launched a tool called Backsy to make product feedback collection a lot more effortless for both the person giving feedback and the person receiving it.

Instead of sending out detailed surveys or forms with sliders and ratings, you can now just share a link. People write whatever they want in plain text (or even speak it), and Backsy uses AI to analyze it assigning scores to predefined product attributes like UX, Pricing, Features, etc. You also get new attribute suggestions based on recurring themes.

It s completely anonymous for users, super low-friction, and works well whether you're an indie hacker, founder, or coach trying to get better insights from clients or beta users.

Happy to answer questions or take feedback open to improving it based on what you think is missing in your feedback loop.