First Signal

You build the product. We build the business around it.

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There are thousands of apps built by brilliant people that will never get a meeting at a16z.

Not because the product is bad.

Because there’s no business behind it.

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What’s the best app on your phone that you’re pretty sure nobody else knows about?

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Not building software. Building the business side for people who are.

@FirstSignal_ partners with indie founders who’ve built great products but need help with monetization, positioning, and growth. Revenue share, no upfront cost.

If you’re in this thread and your app is live but not making money, that’s what we solve.

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@JonBuildsHQ Yes in theory, but selling is not easy

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Not building software. Building the business side for people who are.

@FirstSignal_ partners with indie founders who’ve built great products but need help with monetization, positioning, and growth. Revenue share, no upfront cost.

If you’re in this thread and your app is live but not making money, that’s what we solve.

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@pcshipp Retention, which is improved by pricing and onboarding

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@1Umairshaikh Distribution 👀

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@Tristanrhee3 Not possible. Even with ai one person can’t operate on that scale.

In the future? Maybe, but I highly doubt it

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We partner with indie founders and handle the business side they don’t have time for or don’t know how to do. Positioning, pricing, go to market strategy, partnerships, distribution.

No upfront cost. Revenue share. We only win when the product starts making money.

Most founders in this thread are great builders stuck on problem 1, 2, or 3. That’s the gap we fill.

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@catmcgee They continue to make themselves look so bad for absolutely no reason.

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The hardest part of building an app isn’t the code.

It’s the pricing page. The first outreach email. The partnership pitch. The positioning.

Most solo devs never get to those problems — not because they can’t, because nobody showed them how.

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@hunterjisaacson 100%

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@Bbaka_Crypto @clarry_d_trader @1Umairshaikh Good catch, just fixed that we’re open now!

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Really. But we’re selective. We look for products with real users, a clear problem being solved, and a founder who’s open to letting someone else drive the business side.

We’re not doing this for every app that hits our DMs. The model only works when the product is already good and the founder is serious about growing it.

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That’s exactly what we’re saying. We build the go to market, positioning, and growth strategy for indie apps at no upfront cost to the founder. We work on a revenue share, so we only get paid when the product starts making money.

The founder has the product. We bring the business side. Both parties eat when it works.

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@Polymarket This was inevitable. What’s at stake to win the ai race is too much for our government to not try and get a piece of the action

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@hthieblot Growth

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To every dev posting their side project in Reddit threads hoping someone notices:

The product isn’t the problem. The go-to-market is.

You shouldn’t have to be great at marketing AND engineering. That’s what partners are for.

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@buildwithshyam Have to validate first. Or else you’ll end up building something that will sit in the App Store with 0 downloads