I'm a 14-year-old building a productivity/calendar app called Zenith Calendar.
I've been building it for around 4 months and have a working MVP. It's not perfect yet, but it's usable.
The problem I'm trying to solve is something I personally struggled with:
Most productivity tools seem disconnected. Calendars, tasks, goals, habits, notes, projects — everything lives in different places. And when a schedule inevitably falls apart, many productivity systems make it feel like you've failed the entire day.
While researching, I've found a surprising number of people describing very similar frustrations on Reddit.
The issue is that I can't seem to get conversations started.
I've commented on Reddit posts, asked questions, and tried engaging with people who appear to have the exact problem I'm solving. Most of the time I get no response.
I currently have:
0 users
0 interviews
0 meaningful conversations with potential users
I've tried:
Reddit comments
Posting on X
Some content creation attempts
What I haven't done:
Paid ads
Waitlists
Landing pages
My question is:
If you were in my position and had a working MVP but no users, how would you get your first 5–10 meaningful conversations with potential users?
Would you continue with Reddit?
Start cold DMs?
Join Discord communities?
Something else entirely?
I'm less interested in growth hacks and more interested in understanding what actually worked for founders who started with no audience and no network.
One thing I'd be careful with:
The problem may not be that people aren't responding.
The bigger risk is assuming that people describing the frustration are automatically the people most likely to change their behavior because of it.
Those can look like the same thing early on, but they often lead to very different validation decisions.
I wouldn't make that call casually.
Thank you for replying. Have to agree on your point there, assuming that people with frustrations = people ready to change their behavior is dangerous especially in the phase of validation. what would you advice me to do?
Possibly, but that's exactly where I'd be careful.
I don't think the useful part is the advice.
I think it's the decision underneath it.
I wouldn't try to unpack that properly in a thread.
If you'd like the tighter version, drop your email.