Niche User Base Size

Comments debate the limited scale and viability of a product or feature's user base, emphasizing that only a tiny, tech-savvy minority would adopt it rather than achieving mass appeal.

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EFF IMHO LLM ciechanow.ski i.e users number users user base number people using population proportion base large number user

Sample Comments

dangus Jan 24, 2025 View on HN

Even if you can, an insignificant number of users will know how or be willing to.

dpcx Oct 11, 2012 View on HN

But not something that an overly large number of users are going to have...

msla Sep 10, 2021 View on HN

Yeah, only if you want an appreciable number of people to use it.

lxgr Oct 3, 2024 View on HN

The potential user base seems quite finite to me, even under most optimistic assumptions.

CaptainOfCoit Oct 20, 2025 View on HN

Well, it's 90% less than what everyone else uses, so even if the total number is big, relatively it has a small user-base.

EpicEng Sep 26, 2016 View on HN

Good luck getting a large number of users to hop on that bandwagon.

diminoten Jul 14, 2019 View on HN

Yeah but you're not representative of a significantly sized user population.

untog May 12, 2015 View on HN

Only if a lot of people use it. I suspect something like this can continue to fly under the radar while only a tech savvy minority use it.

pipe01 Dec 8, 2023 View on HN

We probably make up less than 0.1% of users, so yeah it doesn't matter

layer8 Aug 11, 2024 View on HN

Less users because it's not well-known. You can't do this at scale.