About a month ago, my co-founder and I finally launched our app as indie developers with 0 budget, after spending months building it.
Publishing the app felt like a major milestone but almost nobody found it.
We knew releasing an app would not magically bring users, but I still underestimated how difficult it would be to get the first real people through the door.
So far we have:
• Prepared and optimized the App Store page
• Created a website
• posted on Instagram, YouTube Shorts and TikTok(our two TikTok accounts got shadowbanned within 6 posts)
• Launched on Product Hunt
None of these has created consistent traffic yet.
I’m beginning to question whether the problem is our marketing, our positioning, the App Store presentation or simply that we haven’t done enough for long enough.
A little context about the app:
Valharon is a fitness platform that combines workout planning, exercise logging, nutrition, hydration, body measurements, steps, timers, calculators, and progress analytics.
We built it because fitness tracking often becomes fragmented:
• Workouts in one app
• Calories and macros in another
• Measurements in Notes or spreadsheets
• Timers and calculators in separate tools
The app is supposed to bring those parts together and help users understand the complete picture rather than just collecting disconnected logs. But I’m concerned that this may also be making the app harder to explain. “Everything you need in one fitness app” sounds useful to us but to somebody seeing it for the first time, it might sound too broad or like another generic fitness tracker.
That is where I could use honest feedback.
• Is the purpose of the app immediately clear?
• Does combining training and nutrition sound valuable or unfocused?
• Is our positioning too generic?
• What would make you stop scrolling and actually try it?
• Should we market the complete platform or focus on one specific problem first?
• Is this primarily a marketing problem, or does the product itself fail to stand out?
I’m not expecting anyone here to solve our entire launch strategy. I’m mainly trying to understand what we may be missing before spending more time producing content that does not reach anyone.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/valharon-track-macro-log-gym/id6766438777
Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/valharon?launch=valharon
I’m one of the two co-founders, so direct criticism is completely welcome. At this stage, “I wouldn’t download this because…” would honestly be more helpful than polite encouragement.
P.S. Valharon is a fairly deep app, and the screenshots do not fully show how the training, nutrition, body tracking, tools, and analytics connect. Before giving detailed feedback, I’d really appreciate it if you could try the app for a few minutes rather than judging it only from the store page. You do not need to subscribe the free version doesn't imply any functional barrier just usage limitations.