My first week with startup: 200k Reddit views, 385 users, 6 paid

Hey my friend,

This whole newsletter started with Reddit. Over the past months I’ve been messing around there and somehow ended up with more than 2M views on my posts. Turns out, that was the perfect crash course in growth marketing

So when I finally built my own startup — Polary, I decided to test it the same way. One post hit 140k views, a couple smaller ones added another 60k. In a week that was 200k impressions, ~4,700 people on my site, 385 signups, and 6 paying users. Not bad for something I hacked together solo in a few weeks

Nothing crazy, but exactly what I needed: fast signal, real usage, honest feedback

Mistakes

Of course, it wasn’t smooth.

My first mistake was classic: I tried to build a spaceship. Multi-agent backend, complex chains, over-engineering the hell out of it. Spent weeks. Then I scrapped it, rebuilt in two days, and that version actually worked better. Lesson learned: ship fast > build fancy

Second mistake: I almost ignored analytics. When you don’t track, you don’t know where people drop. Eventually I wired up GA + Sentry, and suddenly I could watch real users break things in Hong Kong while I was drinking coffee in Milan. Weirdly satisfying

Third mistake: I ignored scale until it bit me. Polary is token-heavy. Early on I couldn’t validate two projects in parallel. I bumped model limits, reworked the pipeline, and designed for ~100 concurrent users even though I peaked around 20–30 simultaneous. That headroom saved the launch weekend

Fourth mistake: Email flows matter more than you think. After the first hundred users I wired up onboarding in Resend (100 emails/day free). I promptly sent a couple of wrong links — fixed it — and now new users get a clean, useful sequence that actually moves them forward

The point is: I got something real into the world, fast, cheap, and with actual feedback. That feedback showed two things at once: (1) people are willing to pay, even with rough edges, and (2) the value prop wasn’t sharp enough yet

What I’m doing now

I didn’t ship and run back to post more threads. The point of week one was cheap validation and a working MVP. The point of week two is turning that feedback into a better product

• The current version works but is hard to scale and the value prop is still fuzzy

• I’m building a cleaner, second MVP based on user feedback (and a painful amount of my own)

• This month is about product market fit experiments. Polary may morph. It will get better

My simple loop (steal it): Signals → fast MVP → growth push → feedback → iterate

Repeat until it feels inevitable

If you want help running this loop for your idea, I do 1:1 consulting on validation, GTM, and AI-augmented product builds. Bring me a messy draft; we’ll make it real

Also, last month I opened a private Vibe Coders community. I share raw experiments, teardown notes, and marketing plays I actually run. If you want the behind-the-scenes stuff, hop in. (Everything I’ll publish next — guides, webinars — is free inside the community)

How I built and launched (the real flow)

1. Landing first. Sketched the concept, grabbed a few components from 21st.dev, styled it to my taste, shipped the draft to friends + community, iterated fast

2. Backend second. Next.js + Supabase. I lived in the terminal with logs until responses looked solid

3. Frontend third. I mocked the UI disconnected from the backend to nail the flow.

4. Stitching + payments. Connected everything, integrated Stripe via API, bought the domain, wired GA + Sentry, and tested with real cards and real humans

5. Launch. Wrote the newsletter, pressed send, posted the Reddit thread, watched the graphs do their thing, and took notes like a maniac

I’m packaging all of this into a deep guide

Debating: should I publish a long, tactical write-up or run a live webinar with walkthroughs and Q&A? Hit reply and tell me what you’d actually use. (Either way, community members get it free)

Want hands-on help?

• 1:1 Consulting (validation, GTM, AI builds). If you want a clear plan and a working MVP, I can help

• Vibe Coders Community. Raw experiments, teardown calls, and a quiet, focused chat. First call soon

• Polary. If you want to see what I’m iterating on, kick the tires

See you next week with the v2 notes — what shipped, what broke, and what moved the needle

stay caffeinated.
lead the machine.
launch anyway.

— Miron

P.S. If you were waiting for a sign to start, this is it. Build the dumb version this weekend, push it somewhere people gather, and learn in public. The feedback shows up faster than you think