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> The top cause of death for indie startups is failure to delegate the tasks you're not good at and being overtaken by more social players. Lesson learned.
by happy-go-lucky 10y ago
> The top cause of death for indie startups is failure to delegate the tasks you're not good at and being overtaken by more social players.
Lesson learned.
- mskvsk 10y agoIt's too bad that it took me 2 years to learn that one. Oh well, better late than never.
- happy-go-lucky 10y agoI don't know Russian. I'm going by Google Translate, which points me to some inconsistency in the choice of words used for menu div: at the top, they're Register, Log in and at the bottom I see SIGN UP, SIGN IN buttons. Register and SIGN UP are doing the same thing and likewise Log in and SIGN IN. I would rather be consistent with them :)
- mskvsk 10y agoThe difference between them is that it's nouns at the top and verbs in the bottom. But yeah, I think you're right :)
- happy-go-lucky 10y agoLost in translation.
- codesushi42 10y agoKudos to your success. Refreshing to see a SAAS that generates enough revenue for you to live off of instead of an overvalued SV company with no profit.
- mskvsk 10y agoThanks! And I think you're absolutely right, people got a bit tired of all this unicorn nonsense.
- happy-go-lucky 10y agoIt is refreshing and helps keep other SaaS developers from despair.
- xiaoma 10y agoWhat is a "more social player" in this context? Somebody who does lots of networking and is good at hiring or is it related to social media like VK, FB, etc?
- mskvsk 10y agoYes, it's about networking and the ability to delegate. I've been struggle with it for years. Felt like if I entrusted some part of work to someone else, they wouldn't give it 100% of their attention. Then I realized that it's true most of the time, but the trick is it they don't have to in order to finish the task.
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