You built it with an AI tool. Now nobody knows it exists.
Shipping got dramatically cheaper; being found did not. This page is about the part that stalls right after the deploy succeeds — and it includes the cases where we are not the answer.
Where people actually try to get the first users
Most launches cycle through the same handful of channels. Each has a real cost, and none of them is free — the cheap ones cost attention and time instead of money.
Reddit and Hacker News
Highest quality feedback, zero cost, and the least predictable. A post either catches or it does not, and communities punish anything that reads like marketing. Worth doing first; not a channel you can plan around.
Product Hunt
One concentrated day of traffic, mostly other builders. Good for credibility and early feedback, weak for sustained signups unless your product targets makers.
Google and Bing ads
The right choice when people already search for what you built. Expensive when they do not: for a new category you pay to educate the market.
X, LinkedIn and communities
Compounding but slow. It works if you were already building an audience before the launch, and mostly does not if you were not.
Telegram channel advertising
You buy placements inside channels people already read. Cheap to test, fast to launch, and it does not require an existing audience — which is exactly why it suits a product with none. The catch is that it fits some audiences and not others; see below.
What advertising with inside.ad actually costs
These figures come from the live exchange and are regenerated from the same source as our per-topic pages, so they do not drift apart.
The minimum rises for narrow targeting. Cost per click is derived from CPM and an observed click-through band — it is a range, not a promise: the real number depends on your creative.
Is this a fit for your product?
Usually a good fit
Consumer and prosumer tools with a public page anyone can sign up on. AI tools, developer utilities, mobile apps, Telegram bots and mini apps, crypto products, games, education. Anything where a curious person can click through and try it in a minute.
Usually not a fit
Enterprise B2B with a six-figure contract and a nine-month sales cycle — the audience is too small and too specific to buy in bulk. Products with no public page yet. Anything requiring a licence, a physical presence, or a regulated onboarding. Narrow professional niches where the whole addressable audience is a few thousand people worldwide: the estimate will tell you there is no matching inventory, and it is telling the truth.
We would rather you check for free and walk away than spend a hundred dollars finding out.
How a launch actually goes
- Paste the product URL. The page gets parsed and ad creatives are generated from it.
- Pick country and topic, or let the audience be matched from a description of the product.
- Set a budget. Ten dollars is enough to learn whether people click.
- Launch. No negotiating with channel owners, no manager, no media plan.
Or let your coding agent do it
The same thing is available as tools for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and any MCP client. Your agent can check whether an audience exists, show you the numbers and prepare the campaign, leaving you one link to approve and pay. The estimate needs no account.
npx -y @inside-ad/mcp
# или прямой адрес для клиентов с поддержкой remote MCP
https://app.inside.ad/api/mcpCheck whether there is an audience for what you built
No account, no card, no signup — the estimate answers in seconds and says plainly when the answer is no.
Check for freeFigures updated 2026-08-18. /telegram-ads