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My discovery having gone through something similar: If something made you happy and gave you purpose before, it probably will again. So just do it again. The s
by csallen 2y ago
My discovery having gone through something similar: If something made you happy and gave you purpose before, it probably will again. So just do it again.
The second time around, you may discover that finding success, getting rich, etc., wasn't actually the reason you were doing it.
- jborden13 2y agoGetting rich was never the reason. I was a solo bootstrapper who rarely got paid for a decade+. If it was about the $ I would've dipped week one of the startup. My issue is product market fit. I've been building different ideas for the past few years, but traction has eluded me.
- csallen 2y agoOut of curiosity, what have you built? Also, do you enjoy the process of building things?
- jborden13 2y agoI love building things - it's my passion in life. I loathe when I build something and it doesn't get traction. I'm all for learning, but I'm truly here for the traction. Here's a list of some things I built in the past few years: - AI Agent Generator: Created no-code platform for customizable AI agents with a MidJourney & RAG/VectorDB document and crawled website integration. - AI-Enabled Town: Crawled all of my tourist town's destinations, retail stores and their products and then tied them into a React Shopify sales channel. Built an agent to interact with and it links to products and locations as it chats. - Job-Matching Browser Extension: Developed Chrome/Firefox extension to analyze job fit and generate multilingual resumes/cover letters in 26 languages. - Job-Searching Agent: Developed MacOS and Winows Electron app to perform a number of searches on popular job website and stream a list of jobs and a % of how the user matches up, so they can focus their time applying instead of sifting through job descriptions.