I built a free traffic exchange for indie founders (and why nobody else did) (opens in new tab)

Every indie founder has the same problem on day one. You launch. You post on Twitter. Your mom visits your site. Then nothing. You need traffic but you have no audience. You need an audience but you need traffic first. Classic catch-22. I spent weeks trying the usual playbook SEO takes months, paid ads burn money fast, Reddit gets you banned if you're too promotional. Nothing works immediately for a zero-budget founder. Then I had a dumb simple idea. What if founders just showed each other's ...