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A Listing Shows Availability, Not Adoption

A Product Hunt page, an MCP hub entry, or a directory approval can show that a product is available somewhere. The listing alone does not show whether the right person found it, used it, or returned.

An earlier version turned several launch surfaces into one sequence and then offered five possible stopping points from arrival to repeat use. Those questions formed a reusable diagnostic path that the public records did not support, so the checklist and its related links have been removed.

The public outcomes are narrower than that. A page can be live while the intended audience misses it. Someone can arrive without understanding the promise, or install a tool without reaching a useful result. The surface does not distinguish those paths.

Published, listed, approved, and indexed are real availability events. They are not evidence that the product entered a buyer's workflow or created a reason to return.

What remains to be established is the route from the listing to actual use: who arrived, what they tried, and what happened next. Without that sequence, more listings are a possibility, not a conclusion about the source of the adoption gap.

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