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One of the most useful questions you can ask in a startup is: How is what users want different than you expected? Are people using your product in unexpected ways? Are different people using it than you expected?
It's not a bad sign if there are lots of answers to these questions. It's a good sign. It means you're at least near some live demand, which is as much as you can hope for at first.
E.g. Zuck once told me that they were surprised that early Facebook users kept changing their profile pics. That was how they realized users wanted to share images.
There's a variant of Cunningham's Law for startups: the fastest way to learn what people want is to give them what they don't want.
