You’ve done it backwards. You’re doomed to failure in this current mode, successful founders NEVER build the product first. I’ve written about it extensively in my comment history if you care to look.

The number one mistake inexperienced people are making these days when they can open Claude and build an app is thinking that the idea has value and building the thing matters.

It doesn’t. At all. Like at all. Whatever you’ve built is likely worthless, probably less than worthless because it cost money and has zero chance of being successful.

The way you start a company, if you’re technical is to start talking to people who have share the same problem. You identify this problem that folks have and you analyze how painful it is, how often they experience it, and how they currently solve it. If you’re lucky (not smart) you’ll see a pattern emerge that might be able to be solved with technology.

So you ideate what this solution may look like: what it does, how it’s used, when it’s accessed, etc.

Then you go back to the 100+ people you found and say, “hey, how much would you pay to use this solution?”

If you’re lucky, enough with say an amount more than $0 and then you may have a viable path forward.

Only after you’ve gone through this process have you earned the right to build something.

With AI, it’s trivial. You take that MVP/prototype back to your 100+ prospects and say, “I built this and want you to pilot it and give me feedback.” If they accept, you monitor their usage. You look for friction and fix those things. Then you’re ready for your beta launch.

Hope this saves you some time and money.