Ask HN: What early signal convinced you to pivot?

1 pointsstokemoney18d ago1 comments

A lot of startup advice says to listen carefully to early users, but in practice the signals can be noisy.

For people here who changed direction early, what was the thing that made it obvious?

Was it weak retention, empty user interviews, bad conversion, inability to explain the value clearly, or something else?

I’m especially interested in signals that are easy to rationalize away at first.

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vansbel18d ago

This is a great question. Often, it's hard to tell if the product is wrong or if you're just failing to explain the value clearly on your landing page. If you're worried about 'bad conversion' being the noise, I actually built a tool (AI Website Roast) that gives a brutal/honest look at exactly where a landing page is losing people. Might help you figure out if you need a pivot or just better positioning. Happy to run it on your URL if you want a second set of eyes? You can also put it in and try it.

https://website-roast.lovable.app/

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