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Years of hard work, struggle, and pain. 20+ failed projects 😭 This one was different. Built the first version in a few days, using tools I already knew (React, Node JS, Postgres, OpenAI, etc.). No fancy architecture. No perfection. Just shipping. What finally worked (with real numbers): Solve one painful problem.
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I'm going to tell you something nobody else will: Your SaaS will probably fail. Not because you're not smart enough. Not because your idea is bad. Not because you're not working hard enough. It'll fail because the math doesn't work. And once you accept this, you can actually succeed. Let's
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This guy built 5 boring apps and makes $200k/month. Meet Mike from Australia. Zero VC funding. Smallest team possible. Five SaaS apps. His secret? He refuses to build anything new. His exact words: "Pick an idea that's been done before. New ideas are risky." While you're trying to disrupt
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Lately, I’ve been seeing the same type of content everywhere: “$10k MRR in 3 weeks” “$1M in 90 days” “Bootstrapped to $100k/month overnight” And for a while, I believed it. I thought maybe I was just behind. But the more I dug in, the more I realized most
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After 3 years of building and almost $500k in funding from some big name VCs, and $50k of my own cash, I’ve officially shut down my SaaS startup. It hurts like none other — but it was time. We set out to build an AI teleprompter and testimonial video platform
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Company has 15 employees and 12 paying customers. Revenue maybe $8k/month. CEO goes we need to implement Salesforce for our CRM. I'm like why? You have 12 customers, you could manage them with a notebook. But no. They spend 3 months evaluating enterprise platforms, hire implementation consultants, train the
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This is what Steve Jobs has to say about failing and this simple thing you need to do to get started.
Law 1 - Never Outshine the Master Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they
So I was feeling nostalgic. I decided to go through some of my old stuff. Then, I remembered when I used to write scripts for sale. I looked at my vendor dashboard to ponder about "the good old days." Then, I looked at the number of copies sold. The number
A collection of valuable resources to help every budding entrepreneur and startup.
This post is based on a LinkedIn article written by SEO specialist and CEO of iRankFast Marshall Adler, who wrote about the top reasons why websites suck and fail to get conversions. There are no test cases or cases studies to back his claims, and like most things on the
An entrepreneur's resource for failing.
Found out why this person sold their app for just $5 despite skeptics and read to know if their bold strategy paid off.
In 2019 I quit my comfy corporate job build an app to find healthy food whilst you're on the go. The idea was simple - A list of healthy food choices around you, wherever you are in the world. Think Deliveroo or Uber Eats but with only healthy choices. We
Find out how this person created Jotform and grew it from 1,000 users to 25 million.
I started developing the app in early 2017, well before the AI era, when mobile apps were at their peak popularity. My idea was to create an app for emotional and psychological support in the form of helpful articles and various quizzes, such as personality assessments and life satisfaction tests.
If you have a bad product and good marketing - Many will buy it, but only once. If you have a good product and bad marketing - It will take a long time until people find out about it. If you have a good product and good marketing - That's
After 4 or 5 years of working for a company I was laid off last October. So, I thought this is a good time to get back into building my own products as I had good savings and could afford to take a year off. If nothing else, you learn
How I bootstrapped a $40m company overnight, and by overnight, I mean it took 11 YEARS and I SURE AS HELL didn’t build it by myself. Here’s my story, my epic failures, the successes, and the heartaches. 2010: I was 22 and worked at an engineering firm as
About two years ago, I had this “million dollar” idea of a SaaS. I’ve built it, launched it and failed miserably. Here is what happened. The idea The idea was simple. A wedding RSVP platform that allows users to create a landing page for their wedding then either send
1. Validate idea first. I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed. 2. Kill your EGO. It's not about me, but the user. I must want what the user wants, not what I want. 3. Don't chaise investors, chase users, and then investors will be chasing you. 4.
My name is Igor, I'm 27 years old, I'm from Ukraine. I invested $300k in the project and closed it without earning anything. What did we do? In 2019 we made “Uber for plumbers.” Is your pipe leaking? Leave a request and the master will be there in 20 minutes.
7 years ago, we started a startup to challenge Carta, we raised $1M, got our first 100 users, and tons of optimism. 6 years later we went bankrupt. In 2017 I was playing cageball in Oslo when I met my old friend, who said he just started a new startup,
It's very easy to get lost in day dreams of fancy cars, big houses, exotic places, and expensive things. How many of you think about products you can sell or services you can offer that will make a lot of money? Why not? If you can sell something or provide