I shipped v7. Nobody showed up. Here's my honest breakdown.

I shipped FireChat v7 last week. Real AES-256-GCM encryption. Messages that disappear when everyone leaves. View-once media that actually deletes from storage. Push notifications that work across devices. Song sharing. A PWA that installs on your phone. Seven rewrites worth of lessons baked in. And still. Nobody showed up. 7 views in 7 days. That's not low traction. That's digital silence. So I stopped blaming "marketing" Nobody owes me users. Not because I built something. Not because I spent six months on it. Not because I think it's genuinely good. People only care about one thing — why should I use this instead of everything else? And honestly? I never answered that loudly enough. FireChat exists because my friend's sister kept reading our WhatsApp chats. I wanted a place where conversations are locked behind a passphrase, encrypted on your device, and gone the moment everyone leaves. No history. No logs. Nothing to scroll through on someone else's unlocked phone. That's a real rea