Built a diagnostic plugin from a graveyard of refuted growth tactics

[maxxthemate-png]

Disclosure: I built this, so take it as a self-promo with that grain of salt.

Alongside another project I've been building, I tried to refute 20 "how to get traction" growth tactics for AI/dev tools using real sourced evidence instead of survivorship-bias blog posts: things like "post on Reddit," "SEO will find you," "cold DM people," "list it on every directory." 11 of the 20 didn't hold up once I actually checked outcomes instead of vibes.

That graveyard became the diagnostic logic behind a free Claude Code plugin. /diagnose walks through why a shipped product isn't selling and points at the pattern that's actually blocking it, sourced back to the original research rather than generic advice. MIT, no telemetry, no license checks.

Posting here because this repo is full of people building agent tooling that eventually has to find users, same problem this was built for. Not positioning it against anything in this collection, it's a diagnostic step after the build, not a build tool.

Repo: https://github.com/maxxthemate-png/why-isnt-it-selling

Happy to answer anything about the methodology or what got refuted.

[wshobson]

Closing this. The post says /diagnose is free, but the linked README sells /diagnose in the $91 tier through Stripe. CONTRIBUTING.md treats a free listing in front of a paid tier as a funnel, and we don't accept those here.