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I built a product of similar complexity by myself in a few months. It's built for a small but growing niche. After 2 months of having launched I already have ab

I built a product of similar complexity by myself in a few months. It's built for a small but growing niche. After 2 months of having launched I already have about 70 paid accounts and $1.5K MRR with minimal marketing. It boggles my mind to think people can burn $40K a month before having an understanding of whether what they built has product market fit. I literally spent maybe a total of $5000 building and launching my product (+ my time, arguably that's a hidden cost but if you're a software engineer founder, that's also a major asset for you) and with 70 accounts we're getting 2-3 feedback and suggestion emails a day and iterating to please our customers and find PMF before I consider taking any investor money or hiring anyone. Also their actual marketing page sucks. They don't have a particular differentiator from similar products, I don't really understand what their app does... Blargh. :/

james_s_tayler 7y ago
Awesome results in comparison! Can I ask what stack? What does the production infrastructure look like? How many years of experience you have? And was it 2 months full-time or the equivalent of or just 2 months calendar time hacking nights and weekends? I swear some people are really, really fast builders. I'm trying to improve my speed and I keep coming back to the answer of keep it as simple as possible and study your stack to know it backwards.
tablet 7y ago
Well, some things take time. It is relatively easy to build something trivial fast, but it is not that easy to build something more complex. Markets are different. It took 4 years for Coda.io to release even private version. And they had like 50 people in a team. Our market is highly competitive and hard to enter.