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How did you manage to advertise or generate initial traffic for something like that?

Even if the tool is excellent, it seems like the space is flooded with “Prototype your app with AI” tools, many backed by big players with huge ad budgets. The target audience must be getting bombarded with a dozen similar pitches every day. How did you manage to cut through the noise?

I find myself asking this question often, so there’s probably something fundamental I don’t quite grasp about startups in general.


> How did you manage to cut through the noise?

In startup land, I think it's really important you love your customer. Because you cut through the noise by having your existing customers tell their friends about you. 30% of new users hear about us from their friends.

I'll also note: we launched for the first time in October 2023. At the time the space was not flooded. We first got 10 users who loved us — where I define "love" as using us weekly — and since then it's a game of continuous iteration!


One problem here is that you can execute these unauthorized S3 requests without having an AWS account at all.


You can't protect your bucket with CloudFront if it's being access using S3 api.


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