What moved the needle for me on old tools was joining my ICPs communities and then waiting for people to talk about the problem my tools actively solve and joining that conversation ASAP.
When people do talk about a problem I solve, I help them out immediately (no strings attached) and then, if my tool solves a non-zero portion of that problem, offer a link to my tool.
With you, I imagine lots of online running communities exist, so following along and waiting for people to ask about training programs that work or how to get started etc.
If you want to automate reading those posts, I open-sourced a tool to surface relevant discussions for me so I could focus on helping people asking questions out.
Understand the frustration, but a defeatist attitude won't attract the attention you want.
In terms of traction, though, posting anything top-level due to the reasons you mention (everyone having their own AI tool) doesn't work anymore and, a lot of the time, just gets ignored, removed, or downvoted aggressively on things like Reddit.
What worked for me was signing up for or joining communities of the person I wanted to help and then waiting for them to bring up the problem my tool solved and immediately helping them out and then assuming my tool solved a meaningful part of thier problem, dropping a link to the tool, or DMing them afterward.
Much more effective because you're reaching someone in active frustration, so they are likely to immediately try the tool out, which is fantastic for early feedback on whether what you're solving is important.
I open-sourced what I use to find those threads, so other builders could also focus on helping instead of searching for pain (or worse, giving up)
You might be making the classic builder mistake when pitching if I'm reading your landing page correctly
"Translate What You See To What Your Agent Needs" is not a job in the user-facing sense. This is a very cool developer workflow tool though in that you're "inspiring" your coding agent to build something like <XYZ>. I personally take screenshots and feed them to my agent for a lower fidelity result, for a similar reason.
The reason I do that is I _DO NOT_ want my sites to look like AI slop (go and look at 50 "I just launched sites; they all look the same), so I need to build out a quiver of design inspiration that can act as a low-barrier-to-entry design system.
But that AI Slop piece would be the pain point I'd be keying into in online forums. People starting conversations with "does anyone else notice all of the new company sites all look the same??" kind of thing.
But for that tool, if I could create a library of interaction points that I liked from other sites and then, via MCP, connect it to my coding agent, that would be a pretty compelling thing for me to try out. Especially if, as I was browsing, I could grab components or interaction points I thought were cool and categorize them.
That's all about hoversource specifically.
The other thing for the other repos: you should add some kind of animation to the headers of your readmes (VHS is a cool CLI recording tool) to get me to actually read them. I'm responding more to hoversource because it had some visualization I could play around with to grok the concept
This is a very real pain point, especially for people coming from a technical background (which I assume is the majority of people who make open-source projects??).
What's worked for me initially is going to online communities that are actively talking about my problem and contributing to the thread ASAP. And by contributing, I mean helping the person who asked the question immediately solve their problem, and then, if my solution automates a meaningful part of that pain, then sharing a link to the tool.
I open-sourced the tool that I've used in the past to find those active threads so I can start to build an audience and validate my concepts: https://github.com/obris-dev/openmagpie
I am not your target audience, but if this gets buried before you get feedback. I found that Reddit has been a better source for getting early users/traction if you focus on helping people in the comments and then share your tool when relevant.
r/TikTokCreators, r/InstagramMarketing, etc look like they'd be relevant to what you're building.
If you go that route and want to save time scanning the different communities for relevant posts, I'm building OpenMagpie to surface them automatically so you can just focus on the response.
Go to online communities that you think would benefit from the hardware. Don't sell it by posting "I have this idea <xyz>. What do you think?" or "would you like <abc>?". Listen to the problems being discussed and contribute. If people talk about problems your hardware would solve, you have an audience.
Share your thoughts in those comment sections; if they're well received, that's a positive signal.
I ran this with a previous SaaS product, which helped me get early users. Seemed like others should need to write the same tool, so I open-sourced it -> https://github.com/obris-dev/openmagpie
Understanding the problems related to your solution and who's asking the questions also becomes a conversation starter for cold outreach later.
When people do talk about a problem I solve, I help them out immediately (no strings attached) and then, if my tool solves a non-zero portion of that problem, offer a link to my tool.
With you, I imagine lots of online running communities exist, so following along and waiting for people to ask about training programs that work or how to get started etc.
If you want to automate reading those posts, I open-sourced a tool to surface relevant discussions for me so I could focus on helping people asking questions out.
https://github.com/obris-dev/openmagpie