Replying to @thatguylarry
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Just a quick one. Is this live or in staging?
When I open the site and click Sign In it goes to Amara Osei's profile. When I click Sign Up it asks me to join the waitlist?
Might be the mixed signals. Maybe drop the sign in and sign up leave the single CTA for early access?
Also, can you share the primary pain point you identified and a short script or message that you're using on Reddit?
Thank you so much for this really valuable feedback.
You're completely right. The Sign In going to a demo profile and Sign Up opening a waitlist is confusing and I need to fix that. It's currently a demo site showing what the platform will look like but the UX is sending mixed signals. Will be cleaning that up.
The primary pain point: creative professionals, musicians, models, photographers, producers, directors, have no dedicated professional platform to be discovered and booked by brands. LinkedIn is too corporate. Instagram is social not professional. So they're stuck cold emailing into silence while brands struggle to find the right talent outside of expensive agency pipelines. Talvé connects both sides directly.
For Reddit honestly it keeps getting taken down by bots which is a whole separate problem I'm trying to figure out 😅
Really appreciate you taking the time to look properly 🙏
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I think there is meat in there somewhere. Maybe the key is to stop selling just the platform and sell the closed deal?
You’re probably hitting a wall with people thinking “another Dribble”, “another sub hub”, “the new Groover”.
Double down on the bypassing agency fees and gatekeepers with algorithmic suppression. That’s probably the moat. The "LinkedIn for Creatives" pitch results in facing extreme distribution friction because it requires a two-sided network effect (thousands of creatives AND thousands of brands) to be valuable. Who do you add first to see the value? Talk to a brand, let them know you will have a pool of creatives to pick from with no agency pipelines.
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Talk to a few creatives directly, there might be friction in onboarding since they are migrating existing profiles to the unknown. So do it for them at first (Read “Do Things that Don’t Scale” by Paul Graham), it will be more work but might stick longer.
As for immediate returns? Cold emails and DMs.
Define your ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) first and the exact phrases (keywords).
Things like: “Upwork fees”, “I hate Dribble”, “client ghosted”, “shadowbanned”, “portfolio in bio”.
How do they speak vs. how you assume they speak. This might refine where you are posting.
For Reddit, have a natural conversation. Throw in a question first, not a link. Follow up in the inbox:
"Hey [Name], saw your post about the algorithm killing your reach. It’s brutal trying to run a business on a platform built for entertainment. I’m building Talvé - it’s a single link you put in your bio or email that handles your portfolio, contract, and payments in one pipeline. No feed, no algorithm, just a professional way to get booked direct and bypass agency fees.”
The No will tell you something as much as the Yes.
The repeated links or “advertising” out of nowhere is probably what the bots pick up. Reddit is a full contact sport, if you can grow thick skin there you can make it anywhere.
Stick it out. Goodluck