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519 people showed up. One got a message. My own numbers.

FirstCustomer surfaced 519 matching people from my own product. I contacted one. The tool did its job. I did not do mine.

We read 494 founder posts. Here is what they say

We coded 494 real founder posts about finding a first customer. The single most repeated piece of advice in the corpus is also the exact behavior that gets people banned.

I was wrong about SEO. Here is the data.

I assumed my brand name would rank on its own. The real audit: two indexed pages, zero backlinks, and a podcast that already owns the word.