`Sonar` reached 1,400+ signups and $2K revenue after shifting from X to Reddit

X brought one early customer, then stalled. Reddit became the working channel; useful as a small, concrete channel-testing lesson.

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First 2 months on X produced 1 customer and then no traction, so early signal was too thin to keep betting on one channel.
After switching to Reddit marketing, Sonar reached 1,400+ signups, 10 payouts, and $2K total revenue over roughly a year.
Marketing stopped in December, yet revenue held around $100/month; not scale, but enough retention to validate demand.
The product itself mines conversations for pain points and generates ideas, so the founder later turned the learned channel into Karmo, a Reddit marketing tool.

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