I logged myself into it, but clearly I was only logging only where I was at that point. I had the option to manipulate the database to pretend there were people

I logged myself into it, but clearly I was only logging only where I was at that point. I had the option to manipulate the database to pretend there were people there, but I chose not to. So, I had about 10 logs where I lived, and 1 log where my parents lived when I first released it haha I posted this on Reddit forums for lonely folks (there were 4~5) and got 1000's of engagements there, out of which about 20 people logged their locations per day. It trickled to 0 after about a week. At that point I had ~150 logs. I learned a ton from that experiment, namely: 1. People do like this stuff, 2. Website needs to have better UI/UX and be faster because they reported not being able to view the site due to server overload (was using free Streamlit hosted webapp), and 3. people's attention span is short. I am getting awesome engagement now after having posted on this forum, but I am at the same time ready for it to tank down just a week later. It is kind of like releasing a movie: it can have a huge box office weekend, but it will not sustain that because it is the same content and not too many people watch the same movie over and over again. The only way to avoid that is to offer new features that people can actually interact with, I think, so the iteration never stops. The whole story so far has been genuine, including all the datapoints on the website, messages, and the fact that I relate to the lonely souls out there since I have personally been through one during my PhD. I think the authenticity resonated with the people and led them to interact with what I have built.