43 people use the thing I built. Here is every number.
By Meet Patel · 2026-08-31 · updated 2026-08-31
Summary
Dan’s complete first ten weeks with zero paid acquisition: 43 weekly active users, 64 signups at 12.05% of visitors, 134 investigations run in product, and 70+ customer interviews. Published in full, including what is missing and why.
Dan has been live for about ten weeks. No paid acquisition, no sales team, no marketing spend, no launch campaign beyond one Product Hunt post.
Here is everything.
- 43 weekly active users in the last 30 days
- 64 signups
- 12.05% of visitors signed up
- 134 investigations run inside the product
- 70+ customers interviewed
These are small numbers. I am publishing them anyway, in full, because selected numbers are how everything at this stage gets reported and it makes the whole genre useless.
What I think each one means
43 weekly actives. Small enough that I know a meaningful share of them by name, which is currently an advantage and will stop being one. The number I actually watch is not the 43, it is whether the same people are there next week.
12.05% of visitors signing up. This looks great and I would not read much into it. At this volume it says more about who is arriving than about the product — the traffic is people who already know roughly what this is. The honest test is whether it holds when visitors stop being pre-qualified. My guess is that it will not, and that is fine, but I would rather write that down now than explain it later.
134 investigations. The one I care about most, because it is the only number here that requires somebody to have found the product useful more than once. Signups measure curiosity. Investigations measure return.
70+ interviews. More conversations than signups, which is the right ratio this early and will look absurd if it is still true in a year.
What is missing, and why
There is no revenue figure here because there is nothing to report yet. Dan is free to try and that is where it currently sits.
There is no retention curve because ten weeks is not enough of one to publish honestly. I could draw a chart. It would have four points on it and I would be inviting you to read a trend into noise.
There is no churn number for the same reason.
Those absences are the most useful part of this post. When you see a seed-stage update with a retention curve and ten weeks of data, the curve is decoration.
Why publish small numbers
Two reasons, one of them selfish.
The selfish one: numbers you have published are harder to quietly reinterpret later. I now cannot describe this period as anything other than what it was, and that is a useful constraint to put on yourself before the story gets away from you.
The other one is that people at this stage mostly compare themselves to a distribution they only see the top of. Everything visible is somebody's best month. If publishing 43 makes one founder feel less strange about their own 30, that is worth more than the impression 43 would have made had I said nothing.
What I would like the next version of this to say
Not a bigger 43. A retention curve with enough points to be worth drawing, and the first revenue number.
If it says something worse, I will publish that too. That was the deal I made with myself when I published the view count on this blog, which is forty-eight across thirty-seven posts, and which I would also rather you heard from me.
Dan is at usedan.com if you want to be number 44.
Frequently asked questions
What traction does Dan have?
In its first ten weeks with zero paid acquisition: 43 weekly active users in the last 30 days, 64 signups at 12.05% of visitors, 134 AI investigations run in the product, and more than 70 customers interviewed. Dan is live at usedan.com and free to try, and launched on Product Hunt.
Is a 12% visitor to signup rate good?
It is high, and at this volume it says more about who is arriving than about the product. A small number of highly qualified visitors converts well; the number to watch is whether the rate holds once traffic stops being people who already know what the product is.
Written by Meet Patel — founder of Company 8, building Dan (usedan.com). Dubai, UAE.