Hey, I'm Jaryd.
Over the past few years I've shipped a lot of small apps. Some were good. Almost all of them got the same launch: a nice day on X, a few upvotes, a handful of signups, and then quiet.
The building part has never been easier. You can go from idea to App Store in a weekend now. What hasn't changed is the part after that: finding the first people who will actually open the thing, use it for a week, and tell you honestly what's broken.
I tried everything. I begged friends, posted in Discords, swapped "I'll try yours if you try mine" in DMs. The DM swaps were the only thing that worked. Another builder would try my app, I'd try theirs, and we'd both get real feedback, because we each had skin in the game.
So I'm building that as a product. Hey100 is a match-making app for developers. You make a "dating profile" for your product. You say hey to apps you'd genuinely use. When someone says hey back, you match, and you trade: you use theirs, they use yours, and you both send feedback.
It's invite-only to start, in small waves, so the first people in actually find good matches. If you have a real product and you're stuck finding your first 100 users, I'd love to have you.