Why Distribution Belongs Inside Your MVP, Not After It

I spent a year building fourteen products. Most of them are good. Some of them solve real problems. Almost none of them have users. The reason is embarrassingly simple: I treated distribution as a post-launch task. Something to figure out after the code works, after the design is polished, after the landing page is just right. That was wrong. The build trap Here's what happened. I'd validate a niche, build an MVP in a few days, ship it, post it somewhere, and wait. The product worked. The landin