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I'm blown away by the quantity and quality of responses here. Thank you guys so much for the plethora of heartfelt and honest advice. I can't respond to everyon
by eloff 5y ago
I'm blown away by the quantity and quality of responses here. Thank you guys so much for the plethora of heartfelt and honest advice. I can't respond to everyone, but I read every single comment here.
You're right that I made the typical engineers mistake of building before validating the market and the customer's problems. As I developer I feel confident there is a market there, but I have no idea how large it is, how difficult it would be to make sales, etc. I probably should have started there. Also I think I chose something a little too difficult to pull off as a single founder - I have a track record of doing that. Next time it had better be stupidly easy to get an MVP out the door.
I think I probably knew this in my heart before I posted here, but I'm going to get a full-time job and focus on getting some more savings in-place for my future family. I'm also going to try picking up some of the business, marketing, and sales skills I lack in the process. I'll keep my eyes open, and maybe in the process I'll encounter a good problem to solve, or meet like-minded individuals I could collaborate with.
Thank you all for your helpful and frank advice! I really needed that today to feel more comfortable with taking this decision.
- demadog 5y agoIf you were to take what you’re doing now and make it very simple but very broad, what could it be? Example: Airtable is a database anyone can use. Cloudflare protects any website from ddos. Yotpo is a reviews plugin for Shopify. If you were to make your thing very consumerized, or prosumer B2B what is it?
- eloff 5y agoI would probably twist it into something in the "no-code" space. That's a very busy space, but it's interesting to think about things from that angle.