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Gergely Orosz, Pragmatic Engineer creator, argues building software has outpaced user acquisition, making distribution the primary developer bottleneck

Logan Kilpatrick agreed, noting developers struggle to acquire initial users.

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Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz#1443inTech

A question I get more frequently these days: "I'm a dev bootstrapping a product that does X. It's done, I've built it, but I don't have many users (and no customers.) Can you give feedback?"

I get more emails like this. Building has become so, so much easier! Finding PMF: not.

Logan Kilpatrick@OfficialLoganK

In @GoogleAIStudio we are now making more than 1,200,000 apps a week (and growing) with more than 18,000,000 created since late February 🤯

The progress continues!!!

7:33 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 34.7K Views
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Logan Kilpatrick@OfficialLoganK

@GergelyOrosz this is what we are focused on next as software creation gets solved, help everyone fine their first 10, 100, or 10,000 users!

Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz

A question I get more frequently these days: "I'm a dev bootstrapping a product that does X. It's done, I've built it, but I don't have many users (and no customers.) Can you give feedback?"

I get more emails like this. Building has become so, so much easier! Finding PMF: not.

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Alvaro Balbin@elalvarobalbin

@GergelyOrosz most built for themselves then wonder why strangers dont care.

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Advit@advitxsingh

@OfficialLoganK @GergelyOrosz heyy, i'm getting 1076 errors on gemini. apparently many are getting (checked on reddit) can you check it? @OfficialLoganK

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"Andy" Antti Törrönen@torronen

@TheRedWall__ @OfficialLoganK @GergelyOrosz Then people will email: "Now it's done, now I have users and customers. How do I stop losing money?"

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ен ен@pasivisiziran

@OfficialLoganK @GergelyOrosz Logan, Gemini error 1076 the whole day. Awful experience :(

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Danil Chernyshev@dan_c_13

@GergelyOrosz Building used to be 30 per cent of effort to create a product. Now it’s barely 10.

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An Qu@hahahahohohe

@OfficialLoganK @GergelyOrosz Logan, answer please. Do you know if Gemini 3+ models will be available for fine-tuning on GCP Agent Platform? With Flash 2.0 and 2.5 being deprecated there's no options left

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Q Hoang@0xqwee

@OfficialLoganK @GergelyOrosz just rank them on Google search based on their Gemini bills

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Ali Haider@ggg78g89

@OfficialLoganK @GergelyOrosz Sir Gemini is down. Please use Fable 5 to fix the errors.

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R 'Nearest' Nabors@rachelnabors

@GergelyOrosz Just because it can be built doesn't mean it should

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Jack Timonen@Jack_Timonen

@GergelyOrosz And what's the tip you give the most in those situations?

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GeekPark@GeekParkHQ

@GergelyOrosz Turns out PMF wasn’t hiding in the codebase

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LaunchChair@LaunchChair

@GergelyOrosz Building got easy. Customer discovery didn't. The gap between 'built it' and 'people actually want it' is almost always a research problem, not an execution one. We built LaunchChair to close that gap before the first commit: https://www.launchchair.io/

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Gokul (GokXLabs)@gokXlabs

@OfficialLoganK @GergelyOrosz What if someone builds an app for a different platform—could they still use Google to find their first 100 or 1,000 users? 🤔🤔

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Everlier@Everlier

@GergelyOrosz Building software is like 3D printing now. You can print so many things, but most are complete gimmicks and only very few are actual commercially viable products

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Red@TheRedWall__

@OfficialLoganK @GergelyOrosz In other words, built in google ads support 😂

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sonyx.eth@SonyxEth

@OfficialLoganK @GergelyOrosz Nah, u steal ideas your users make and implement them in AI studio

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TadasG 💻@tadasgedgaudas

@GergelyOrosz just send them to http://topyappers.com - AI agent automatically outreaches creators in your niche from our database of 40m+ creators

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