You built an app and nobody uses it. Here is the order to fix it
Four causes, opposite cures, and one number that tells you which one you have before you waste a month on the wrong fix
Comparisons
Which tool actually does the job
Honest write-ups of the tools people use to find their first users, including where OctoLoops is the wrong answer. Prices are checked against the vendor at the time of writing and do move.
Start with the decision
Diagnose why nobody is using the product, choose how many channels you can sustain, then decide whether an AI-generated plan is specific enough to act on.
How many marketing channels can one person actually run?
Two, paired: one that pays this month and one that compounds. Why underfunding five produces nothing at all, and how to tell either is working before revenue arrives
AI go-to-market plan generators: what they actually produce
Three shapes of tool, five questions that separate a useful plan from an expensive summary, and a ten minute test you can run on any of them
Reddit method and research
Find the subreddits worth your time, then the live conversations inside them, and contribute without turning a useful account into an advertising pattern.
Reddit search tools and subreddit finders that actually work
Reddit's own search is the worst way to search Reddit. What to use instead, how to judge a subreddit in under a minute, and why the best subreddit finder is a list of usernames
How to market on Reddit without getting banned
Bans come from pattern rather than from a single post, and the outcome that is hardest to undo is not the one most people worry about
How to find Reddit threads worth commenting on
Search the problem rather than your category, filter for threads that are actually alive, and check the comment survives without the link
Reddit audience research tools in 2026
What survived the API crackdown, what each tool is genuinely good at, and which job you actually need done
Free Reddit marketing tools that are actually free
The genuinely free stack for finding threads and monitoring mentions, and the point at which paying starts to make sense
Reddit tool alternatives
What the monitoring and reply tools automate, what they cost, and which risks stay with the person whose name is on the account.
GummySearch is gone. Here is what to use instead
Why the best Reddit research tool closed, what the surviving options actually do, and how to do the job without a subscription
ReplyGuy alternatives: what automated Reddit replies actually cost you
Automated replies from purchased accounts are cheap until the account is banned and the brand is the thing people remember
Redreach alternatives: what it assumes about you
It gets the important thing right by not posting for you. The question is whether you have the mention volume to justify paying for coverage yet, and most early products do not
Syften alternatives: monitoring is not the same as knowing what to do
Broad coverage from $29.95 a month, a free option that covers most of it, and three situations where no monitor is the right purchase
GTM planning alternatives
Compare a library of plays and connected analytics with a plan that narrows the work to the next few actions.
gtm.help alternatives: a plan library, or three things to do this week
Same $29 a month, opposite shapes: a ranked library of plays behind a signup, or a free plan and three tracked actions a week
Cogny alternatives: it reads data you may not have yet
Connected ad and analytics accounts from $9 a month, and the three things that have to be true before optimising numbers beats deciding where to show up