I put out a call for beta users, now we are trending and I am overwhelmed.

Self funded startup to build a social media app. Two software engineers with a decade experience each in cloud systems, UX designer, Product Manager, and CEO who is a social media expert. Our beta testflight app goes live in January. We have been developing for six months and the pieces for mvp was coming together. We are pretty well organized. We planned to add 20 beta users in January and then fix things and add increments of them until some App Store release day. We have met with some investors who wanted to see an app with public interest and users already. Makes sense. We feel it’s not great to ask for money in Q4. We built a simple sign up form on our site. Then we asked for some signups. Welp, they announced the ban of a certain clock app, and our account went from 500 followers to 10k+. Multiple tiktok videos went over 100k views. Our website has 180,000 hits and 10,000+ beta user sign ups (5000 of them today). Our discord is a flurry of conversation and blew up from 100 to 1300 users. I expect tomorrow all of these numbers will balloon further before eventually cooling off. When I say self-funded I mean the pennies we spend each month on slack, jira, and aws bill. I feel another cultural moment will occur when tiktok goes black or is saved, and we may get another huge wave. I can say with absolute confidence if we were open right now for business we would have many tens of thousands of registrations this week. Questions on my mind: What else does a VC need to see? Does it even matter? Rush the MVP? Seek funding? Let the app pay for itself? Open a t-shirt shop? So the question is, what would your advice be? Thanks hive mind. I know our team is really smart to navigate this, but this is new territory, and wondering your thoughts. Time is…ticking.