1M-view demo, no users: PAW creator opens up on the build-vs-adopt marketing gap
yuntiandeng · x · 2026-09-21
yuntiandeng, creator of ProgramAsWeights (PAW), reflects on why a 1M-view demo explicitly built with PAW barely converted users: 'getting people excited about something you built feels very different from getting them to see what they could build with it.' He says PAW works well for his own use cases including harder tasks with the finetune compiler, and publicly asks whether the gap is quality, usability, or messaging.
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