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Day 3 of Building Crowdwide: Teaching Users a Feature Is Surprisingly Hard

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It has been 3 days since I launched Crowdwide, and even though the platform is still very small, I’ve already learned something I didn't really expect: Building a feature is sometimes easier than getting users to actually use it. Here are the current numbers: 6 members 13 posts shared 3 communities These numbers are obviously tiny compared to established platforms, but for me, these first users are valuable because I can actually observe how people interact with something I built. And that's where I noticed this problem. Before Crowdwide, I built Rizzzler, a link-in-bio platform. You can creat

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