--- title: I Thought Building the Product Was Hard… Until I Had My... description: A founder shares early lessons from onboarding the first real users to LaunchAlly, a deployment platform aimed at removing DevOps complexity. Despite months of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-thought-building-the-product-was-hard-until-i-had-my-first-users-x66haovjn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Thought Building the Product Was Hard… Until I Had My First Users | daily.dev og:description: A founder shares early lessons from onboarding the first real users to LaunchAlly, a deployment platform aimed at removing DevOps complexity. Despite months of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-thought-building-the-product-was-hard-until-i-had-my-first-users-x66haovjn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/X66HAOVJN.png og:image:alt: I Thought Building the Product Was Hard… Until I Had My First Users og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Thought Building the Product Was Hard… Until I Had My First Users **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A founder shares early lessons from onboarding the first real users to LaunchAlly, a deployment platform aimed at removing DevOps complexity. Despite months of local testing, real users immediately surfaced edge cases around authentication, invitations, and onboarding flows. The post reflects on how debugging real-world issues is what actually turns a project into a product, and previews upcoming milestones including team invitations, Stripe subscriptions, Google Sign-In, and an improved project analyzer. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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