You spent six weekends building it. You sweated the onboarding, rewrote the landing page three times, finally hit deploy at 1 a.m., and posted a single tweet into the void.

Twelve likes. Four of them from bots. One reply: "cool, what's the pricing?"

Then nothing.

If that stings a little, you're in good company. The hardest part of being an indie maker was never the building. It's that building and getting seen are two completely different skills, and most of us are great at one and terrified of the other.

Here's the uncomfortable truth I had to swallow: a product nobody knows about isn't humble. It's invisible. And invisible products don't get feedback, don't get users, and definitely don't get revenue.