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good (but difficult) read, good reminder that not everywhere is SV, and not everywhere is the USA, and the old "1 in 10 succeed" pseudo-statistic is true. I do
by hardwaresofton 12y ago
good (but difficult) read, good reminder that not everywhere is SV, and not everywhere is the USA, and the old "1 in 10 succeed" pseudo-statistic is true.
I do my own side projects from time to time, and seeing what they went through is a real eye opener, maybe I'll be a little less naive when I do launches from now on.
I am glad that they got back to a lean startup model towards the end though, selling someone an idea is such a shaky way to do business (despite the fact that it's used so much), it makes so much more sense to bootstrap at least a little bit (even if it's just drumming up non-paying clientele).
- michalsobel 12y agoI'm sorry for that. I think we skipped the learning phase by „Fail fast, fail often.“ where we should get better with every small thing we did every day. Instead we taught we're doing it right.
- hardwaresofton 12y agoOh absolutely nothing to be sorry for -- you were writing it as you remember it, and I thought it was worth reading to endure a tiny bit of stream-of-thinking writing. I was inspired by the post, glad you guys worked so hard at making yourselves a success! Also thanks for sharing so initimately the process that you guys went through
- michalsobel 12y agoThank you!