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It's been one of the most challenging project that we have ever built, but more imporantly, so excited to have built this.. Your feedback and suggestions are welcome.

You rightly stated it. This was a big learning lesson for me.

The word here here is "BLIND" trust.

Definitely its my fault, I take the blame as a Founder. Hence, I am sharing my learning and not pointing fingers at someone else. There is a difference.

When I was building PitchGround, this is what I did. My target audience were mostly small business owners, agencies and marketers. So I built a community around these people and st…

Agreed. Always good to learn from other people, you never know at what point you might find which information helpful.

Very true. One can copy the product/idea but cannot copy the process and distribution.

Wrong hiring, wrong delivery, wrong expectations. Everything, and every decision was just a mess but since I have learned a lot. I am based out of India, and its hard to find good …

I just edited the original post, and added a small backstory.

Not blaming anyone other than myself. These are my learning lessons. As a CEO, every decision falls on me.

Email Outreaching Tool to be more specific.

I had a total developer team of roughly 12+ working full time in the office.

My previous startups (Non-SaaS) which I had just sold.

I will keep this short. I started working on my SaaS somewhere in 2016, and the first thing I did was hired a CTO. The person had around 3+ years of experience. Not only was I payi…

This is the first time I am submitting something like this on Hackers News, so wasn't sure if I am allowed to post about the company details. But I can share more details if I am a…

I think what startups truly need is patience and a good mentor who have done it in the past. Most startup want to break things and move fast, burn capital. Instead, startups should…

I am so sorry to hear that.

It was definitely an expensive mistake but I wouldn't be where I am without learning from these mistakes.

Most of the funds were lost into building the product.

My ex-CTO used my resources to build something else. It was my fault that I trusted blindly.

UI and UX shouldn't be the priority when building an MVP. People often focus on this instead of focusing on making the product stable and suffer. The moment one stands building the…

Almost all the funds went into operations, mostly developers.

Almost all the funds went into operations.