4 signups, 1 invite sent, no active testers yet.

Mar 8, 2026 · Day 3

Day 6 of Ryva outreach.

Posted on r/startups, r/webdev, and Hacker News. Also published content on X and LinkedIn about Scrum ceremonies losing their purpose, and emailed Micah and Kirubel from the waitlist.

James agreed to test Ryva and got an invite, but has not tried it yet. His replies look AI-generated, so I am still watching for real intent.

A Turkish founder reached out about a cofounder path. Current product is a niche STM32 embedded IDE, and he mentioned a possible pivot. Conversation is still open.

Signals from today

  • Discussion is active, but nobody has crossed into hands-on testing yet.
  • The warmest feedback was positive on async updates, with concern about the social side.
  • A director said he tried async-only for two years and failed.
  • Many teams have partial systems, but they still fail to turn scattered updates into reliable project state.

Numbers

  • 4 waitlist signups
  • 1 invite sent
  • 0 confirmed testers
  • 0 paying customers

Biggest blocker is unchanged: interest exists, but getting someone to actually run Ryva on a repo is still the gap.

Also finished an internship project, talked with my counselor, met friends, reconsidered X Pro because it is not converting, and started building for a hackathon.