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by CodingPanda42 1702 days ago
I think you have to look at it from the other side, you built something and now are looking for people that use it. What you'd want to do usually is to find people that have a need and then built something to solve that need.

So starting from that, who would want to use your service (expecting parents?) what do they do currently to solve that problem (naming books? other websites?) and how do they find that solution. Once you clarified those questions in a lot more depth than you think necessary will it become clearer how to reach those people as well.

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Yea, I've heard of that trap before of building and then trying to solve a problem rather than identifying the problem first and then building. We've certainly done a bit of that here.

Initially the project was primarily just something fun for us to work on together and to stretch ourselves beyond what we typically get to do at our day jobs. For that it's been good and "successful". But, we have reached a point where it'd be more fun if other people beyond us actually used it. I think that's a good point that we should step back and reflect on what the problem is, who wants it solved, and how we position ourselves so people come across our project when looking for a solution. We'll spend some time reflecting on that. Thanks for the comment!