openmagpie

What moved the needle for me on old tools was joining my ICPs communities and then waiting for people to talk about the problem my tools actively solve and joining that conversation ASAP. When people do talk about a problem I solve, I help them out immediately (no strings attached) and then, if my tool solves a non-zero portion of that problem, offer a link to my tool. With you, I imagine lots of online running communities exist, so following along and waiting for people to ask about training programs that work or how to get started etc. If you want to automate reading those posts, I open-sourced a tool to surface relevant discussions for me so I could focus on helping people asking questions out. https://github.com/obris-dev/openmagpie

Understand the frustration, but a defeatist attitude won't attract the attention you want. In terms of traction, though, posting anything top-level due to the reasons you mention (everyone having their own AI tool) doesn't work anymore and, a lot of the time, just gets ignored, removed, or downvoted aggressively on things like Reddit. What worked for me was signing up for or joining communities of the person I wanted to help and then waiting for them to bring up the problem my tool solved and immediately helping them out and then assuming my tool solved a meaningful part of thier problem, dropping a link to the tool, or DMing them afterward. Much more effective because you're reaching someone in active frustration, so they are likely to immediately try the tool out, which is fantastic for early feedback on whether what you're solving is i