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"but scaling is harder without investors" Walk before you can run. Forget about Scaling right now. Forget about it. Did I say forget about it yet ? Unless you

"but scaling is harder without investors" Walk before you can run. Forget about Scaling right now. Forget about it. Did I say forget about it yet ? Unless you have a past track record or a very rich dad/uncle. Even then, forget about it. So yea, Bootstrap. It is easy these days to bootstrap a software company if you can code. Focus on getting your first 10 customers. Period. Do everything manually. Learn to sell. Don't automate. Learn from it and keep trying to figure out Product/Market Fit. Can you definitely answer what your Ideal Client Profile (ICP) is yet ? Once you have figured that out, you can then think about scaling. This generally doesn't happen until at least 10K MRR or more in my humble opinion.

amdbcg 6y ago
I can't remember if I talked about peeps with money, but they don't really relate to my problems - I have enough to get by and care for needs of those closest to me and that's all that matters at the end of the day. Next steps are 10 customers, you got it chief. I can have that by the end of February. Putting the Software-Developer-Estimation-Error in play, I'll have that count by Christmas next year. Manually. Got it. Learn to sell -- > How/docs would be appreciated Don't Automate: Agreed, the human element is nice and makes me feel like I'm heard and understood. I don't have enough domain knowledge to know what ICP is in detail, but I know that I want to create things that help me and help those directly around me - VFX, developers, people who want to code but cannot yet, managers that want to streamline process, but cannot because current process and detail knots prevent them, Architects who want to make changes, but are ignored, and best practices not followed due to neglect of being heard and understood. Ah, next sentence says I don't need to worry about it until its big ... and previous sentence above says Walk before you can run... Okay, well, thanks for your context/ advice. I appreciate you taking the time to comment on something that I've been thinking about for awhile, but never really doing because I haven't had context or domain knowledge and every time I tried to look it up I got firehosed and overwhelmed with TMI. Thanks for lessening my scope to a high level (level 1) rather than directing me back to detail level (level 4) info I need a business degree and hours to describe https://c4model.com/ https://c4model.com/

amdbcg 6y ago

I can't remember if I talked about peeps with money, but they don't really relate to my problems - I have enough to get by and care for needs of those closest to me and that's all that matters at the end of the day. Next steps are 10 customers, you got it chief. I can have that by the end of February. Putting the Software-Developer-Estimation-Error in play, I'll have that count by Christmas next year. Manually. Got it. Learn to sell -- > How/docs would be appreciated Don't Automate: Agreed, the human element is nice and makes me feel like I'm heard and understood. I don't have enough domain knowledge to know what ICP is in detail, but I know that I want to create things that help me and help those directly around me - VFX, developers, people who want to code but cannot yet, managers that want to streamline process, but cannot because current process and detail knots prevent them, Architects who want to make changes, but are ignored, and best practices not followed due to neglect of being heard and understood. Ah, next sentence says I don't need to worry about it until its big ... and previous sentence above says Walk before you can run... Okay, well, thanks for your context/ advice. I appreciate you taking the time to comment on something that I've been thinking about for awhile, but never really doing because I haven't had context or domain knowledge and every time I tried to look it up I got firehosed and overwhelmed with TMI. Thanks for lessening my scope to a high level (level 1) rather than directing me back to detail level (level 4) info I need a business degree and hours to describe https://c4model.com/ https://c4model.com/