Traction ≠ Traffic

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Most founders chase traffic. Smart ones chase traction. Traffic looks good in a graph. Traction lands you a customer call. One makes noise. The other makes progress.

Most founders still equate traffic with traction.

But traffic is a vanity metric. It flatters you. It tells you people passed by.

Traction is a behaviour. A signal. A sharp edge into someone’s workflow, wallet, or worldview.

It’s the difference between a thousand views and one reply that says:

"Hey, I need this. Can we talk?"

Chasing traffic makes you optimise for impressions.

Chasing traction makes you optimise for use.

One builds audience. The other builds a product.

At Presso, we don’t build landing pages to “validate demand.”

We ship tiny functional cores that test behavioural pull.

And the only thing we count is how many people leaned in — not passed by.

Build for signal, not vanity.