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Week 1: PlayScout is live
PlayScout went live. You enter games like yours and it finds the YouTube and Twitch creators who played them recently, ranked by fit, with the contact info they list publicly. The top 10 are free. My first real user said $29 felt steep for a brand they'd never heard of, so I added a $12 single search and kept $29 for three. I also shipped accounts (sign in with an email link or Google), saved lists, follow-up reminders, and free creator pages for 24 popular indie games. The flop: I posted the same link in a bunch of subreddits and Reddit banned my account. Lesson learned, one community at a time. The brand website, a business email and the logo all went live the same day.